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. Shoutcast 2
      6. SSL Certificates
    3. Billing Integration
      1. WHMCS Integration Guide
      2. Clientexec Integration Guide
      3. Blesta Integration Guide
      4. WiseCP Integration Guide
      5. Billing Platform Comparision
    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. MediaCP System Commands
      2. Admin Tools
      3. Custom Web Service Configurations
      4. Change MediaCP domain name
      5. Port 80 / 443 Proxy
      6. Move media to another hard disk
      7. Custom Language Translations
      8. Custom Facebook App
      9. Branding Your Panel
      10. Secure your server
      11. Setup CSF Firewall
      12. Troubleshooting Login Errors
      13. Reset Admin Password
    7. Scaling
      1. Scale with Wowza and CloudFront CDN
      2. Nginx-Rtmp with CloudFront CDN
      3. Nginx-Rtmp with CDN Proxy
    8. Troubleshooting
      1. Disk Troubleshooting
      2. Grant access to support team
      3. Troubleshooting Wowza Streaming Engine
      4. FTP Troubleshooting
      5. MySQL Database Troubleshooting
      6. Reporting Troubleshooting
      7. Troubleshooting Liquidsoap AutoDJ
      8. Video Relay 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. Administrator Accounts
      1. Create a new Administrator
    7. Media Services
      1. Creating a Media Service
      2. Deleting a Media Service
    8. Announcements
      1. Managing Announcements
      2. Creating Announcement
      3. Deleting Announcement
    9. Statistics
    10. Software Health
    11. Software Updates
    12. Email Templates
    13. 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. Fallback, Backup and Intro Files
      10. Stream Proxy
      11. AutoDJ Crossfade
      12. Public Page
      13. HTML5 Player
      14. Stream Authentication
      15. Widgets & Links
      16. Reporting
    3. Video Operation Manual
      1. Basics 101
      2. Service Overview
      3. Scheduling
      4. File Manager
      5. Stream Targets
      6. Streaming to Your Service
      7. GeoIP Country Locking
      8. Public Page
      9. Widgets & Links
      10. Reporting
    4. Reseller Operations Manual
      1. Reseller Dashboard
      2. Customers
      3. Media Services
    5. API
    1. Custom Domain Names
    2. Shoutcast 2 Admin Guide
    3. Wowza and Flussonic on same system
    4. Submit a feature request
    1. Getting started with Audio Streaming
    2. Icecast Live Broadcasting
    3. Shoutcast 2 Live Broadcasting
    4. Broadcasting with AutoDJ
    5. DJ Accounts
    6. GeoIP Country Locking
    7. HTML5 Audio Player
    8. Mount Points
    9. Managing Your Media
    10. Managing Media Using FTP
    11. Statistics
    12. Shoutcast 2 Premium
    1. Getting started with video streaming
    2. Live Streaming Overview
    3. TV Station Overview
    4. Ondemand Video Streaming
    5. Stream Recording
    6. GeoIP Country Locking
    7. VAST Advertising
    8. Relay & IP Camera
    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. Stream Watermark​
    17. Statistics
    18. DVR Rewind
    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. Login to your cloud platform
      2. Dashboard - A First Look
      3. Branding your platform
      4. Team & Staff Members
      5. Plans & Customers
      6. WHMCS Billing Provisioning Module
      7. Activating VOD on Customer Plan
      8. API
    3. User Manual - Cloud Video
      1. Login to your video platform
      2. First Look
      3. Creating a Channel
      4. Channel Overview
      5. Broadcasting
      6. Live Events
      7. Recording
      8. Media Content
      9. Fallback Video
      10. 30 Minute Rewind
      11. TV Channels - 24x7 UGC
        1. TV Event Scheduling
        2. Channel Guide Widgets
      12. Relay Channels
      13. Video on Demand
      14. VOD Playlists
      15. Publishing
      16. Viewing Analytics
      17. Bandwidth Utilisation
      18. Publish Zoom Meetings
      19. Advertising
      20. 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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