I would like to know a detail way that I could back up all my customers data. I know you are allowed to backup user data through the tools but how would I restore the all the user data from backups. If the server goes down and the ispconfig gets erased. Could I install everything like i did in the beginning and the restore the mysql dump into mysql. Then would ispconfig write ALL the configurations needed to be done to get everything working again.
Well i never tried completly that way, but what I would do in case of a total crash is restoring backuped data like /etc/passwd, /var/www, mailspool etc. Then install isconfig, overwrite its db with the backuped stuff, then everything should be fine. But there will be a loss of data in case of changes between backup and crash happened. But as far as i know you can set al db entries to generate the configfiles for them. But i wonder how this will work for the users added to /etc/passwd and the set passwords for them (in case of ssh or the mailpasswd).
You can not restore a complete setup from a mysql dump of the ISPConfig database because it does not contain the suer passwords. You need at least a copy of your /etc/shadow file to restore the user passwords too. There are some thraeds in the forum that explain in detail which files are needed for a full backup of ISPConfig, for example: http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2717
