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How to download cpbackup backups

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http://forums.cpanel.net – I'm trying to understand how to dl the cpbackups locally. I only do weekly backups, so the backup exists in backup/cpbackup/weekly but its full of tar.gz files of every account. Would I have to do a scp for each tar.gz file in order to have local copies of the backup? Or is there a master tar.gz which contains all the info for all the accounts? I guess I'm trying to understand the point of the cpbackup, and how to actually get it local. (HowTos)

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Submitted by missing on 07/13/2012 – Made popular on 07/13/2012

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