MediaCP Manual
    1. Getting Started
    2. Sales Questions
    3. Frequently Asked Questions
    4. Transcoder System Benchmarks
    5. Start your own streaming platform
    1. Change account currency
    2. Product Licensing
    1. Introduction
    2. Installation & Upgrade
      1. System Requirements
      2. Versions & Releases
      3. Installation
      4. Upgrading
      5. Streaming Servers
        1. Nginx-Rtmp Video Server
        2. Wowza Streaming Engine
        3. Flussonic Media Server
        4. Video Feature Comparison
        5. Icecast 2 / Icecast KH
      6. SSL Certificates
    3. Billing Integration
      1. WHMCS Integration Guide
      2. Clientexec Integration Guide
      3. Blesta Integration Guide
    4. Migrate from other software
      1. Migrate From Centovacast
      2. Migrate From AzuraCast
    5. Backup & Restoration
      1. Backup MediaCP
      2. Restore MediaCP
      3. Transfer to another server
    6. Administration
      1. Move media to another hard disk
      2. Secure your server
      3. Troubleshooting Login Errors
      4. Custom Facebook App
      5. Custom Web Service Configurations
      6. Reset Admin Password
      7. Port 80 / 443 Proxy
      8. MediaCP System Commands
      9. Change MediaCP domain name
      10. Admin Tools
    7. Scaling
      1. Scale with Wowza and CloudFront CDN
      2. Nginx-Rtmp with CloudFront CDN
    8. Troubleshooting
      1. Troubleshooting Liquidsoap AutoDJ
      2. Video Relay Troubleshooting
      3. Grant access to support team
      4. Troubleshooting Wowza Streaming Engine
      5. FTP Troubleshooting
      6. MySQL Database Troubleshooting
      7. Reporting Troubleshooting
    1. Introduction
    2. Administrators Dashboard
    3. System Configuration
      1. General
      2. Services
      3. Video Players
      4. Albums
      5. Email
      6. Plugins
      7. Statistics
      8. Backups
      9. Custom HTML
      10. Misc
    4. Customer Accounts
      1. Managing existing Customers
      2. Create a new Customer
      3. Deleting a Customer
      4. Login as another Customer
      5. Send email to Customer
      6. Reset Customer Password
    5. Reseller Accounts
      1. Reseller Plans
      2. Create a Reseller Account
    6. Media Services
      1. Creating a Media Service
      2. Deleting a Media Service
    7. Announcements
      1. Managing Announcements
      2. Creating Announcement
      3. Deleting Announcement
    8. Statistics
    9. Software Health
    10. Software Updates
    11. Email Templates
    12. API
    1. Introduction
    2. Audio Operation Manual
      1. Basics 101
      2. Station Overview
      3. Media Library
      4. Playlists
        1. General Rotation
        2. Jingles & Advertising
        3. Scheduling
        4. Repeat Protection
      5. Live DJ Connections
      6. Live Stream Recording
      7. DJ Manager
      8. Country Blocking
      9. Stream Proxy
      10. Public Page
      11. HTML5 Player
      12. Stream Authentication
      13. Widgets & Links
      14. Reporting
    3. Video Operation Manual
      1. Basics 101
      2. Service Overview
      3. File Manager
      4. Scheduling
      5. Stream Targets
      6. Streaming to Your Service
      7. GeoIP Country Locking
      8. Widgets & Links
      9. Reporting
    4. Reseller Operations Manual
      1. Reseller Dashboard
      2. Customers
      3. Media Services
    1. Wowza Custom Properties
    2. API Documentation
    3. Custom Domain Names
    4. Shoutcast 2 Admin Guide
    5. Wowza and Flussonic on same system
    6. Submit a feature request
    1. Mount Points
    2. Managing Media Using FTP
    3. Shoutcast 2 Live Broadcasting
    4. DJ Priorities
    5. HTML5 Audio Player
    6. Broadcasting with AutoDJ
    7. Shoutcast 2 Premium
    1. Getting started with video streaming
    2. Live Streaming Overview
    3. TV Station Overview
    4. Ondemand Video Streaming
    5. GeoIP Country Locking
    6. VAST Advertising
    7. Relay & IP Camera
    8. Stream Recording
    9. Connecting your encoder
    10. Preparing Your Media Files
    11. Managing Media Using FTP
    12. Understanding Video Playlists
    13. Embedding player on your website
    14. Smooth Streaming and Content Transition
    15. Video Transcoding (Adaptive Bitrate Streaming)
    16. Image Logo or Watermark Overlay on Video Stream
    17. DVR Rewind
    18. Statistics
    19. Facebook Live Streaming
    20. Youtube Stream Publishing
    21. Twitch Stream Publishing
    22. Shoutcast 2 Stream Publishing
    23. Icecast Stream Publishing
    24. RTMP Stream Publishing
    1. Cloud Video Overview
    2. Admin Manual - Cloud Video
      1. WHMCS Billing Provisioning Module
      2. Login to your cloud platform
      3. Dashboard - A First Look
      4. Branding your platform
      5. Team & Staff Members
      6. Plans & Customers
      7. Activating VOD on Customer Plan
    3. User Manual - Cloud Video
      1. Login to your video platform
      2. First Look
      3. Creating a Channel
      4. Channel Overview
      5. Broadcasting
      6. Recording
      7. Media Content
      8. Fallback Video
      9. TV Channels - 24x7 UGC
      10. Video on Demand
      11. VOD Playlists
      12. Publishing
      13. Viewing Analytics
      14. Publish Zoom Meetings
      15. Advertising
      16. Restreaming IP Cameras
    4. Video Guide Series
    5. Streaming Best Practices
    6. Feature Comparison
    7. Roadmap & Release Notes
Backups

Last updated 2 years ago

Automatic backups can be configured to run daily and/or weekly in the background on the system at a time of your choosing. The automatic backups are compatible with our restoration utility process.

Backing up of Media Contents and Historical Data can be a disk intensive operation. If the backup process is too intensive then you might consider using rsync to keep Media Content files in sync on a different hard disk or server. Consult the Backup Package & Structure documentation also.

Backup Configuration

  • Email Report – Enter an email address to deliver backup reports or leave the field blank to disable emailed reports. Email must be configured correctly for  this to work.
  • Backup System Path – The location to store backups in, this location will also be used for staging the new backup as well.
  • I/O Priority Level – Since the backup process can be intensive, it is recommended to run backups in the background at a low priority in order to not disrupt other services. The backup process will use ionice to control the priority of the entire backup processes disk and cpu resources.
  • Backup Hour – Select an hour according to your systems default timezone (not the MediaCP default timezone) to run the backup. We recommend that you set it to run during off-peak hours, early enough to allow your server to finish backups before peak traffic resumes. Default 2am Server Time.

Daily / Weekly Backup

The purpose of a Daily and Weekly backup is to configure different retention strategies, since the Media Contents and Historical Data is often very large in size.

  • Backup Schedule – Daily backup can run on multiple days, every day if desired.
  • Historical Data – Determines if Historical Data should be included in the backup. For large databases, this may take a long time to complete.
  • Media Content – Determines if Media Content should be included in the backup. For large amounts of Media Content, this may take a long time to complete and a lot of storage may also be required.
  • Retention – How many backups to keep on the system. 

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