Help me understand backups!

piki

Hi community! I'm new to enhance. Can anyone please help me understand how backups work. I have the Backblaze integration set and working. These are my questions:

Does Enhance automatically delete backups from Backblace when excede retention date?

In my case, I would like to make a backup for every website every day, and retain it for a week. Are these settings correct:

Minimum backup age: 24h
Maximum backup age: 14 days
Maximum backup retention: 7 days
Maximum concurrent backups: 3

Thanks!

rdbf

piki Does Enhance automatically delete backups from Backblace when excede retention date?

On Backblaze, no. They're all full backups, and even when they're past the retention horizon on Enhance they will not be deleted on Backblaze. So basically with daily backups, after a year you'll use 365x the total size of websites, unless you manually delete stuff from Backblaze. If you have 100GB of websites, that's 36TB on Backblaze.

That's why people use proper backup servers and put the Enhance Backup role on it.

DracoBlue

Minimum backup age: 23h
Maximum backup age: 24h
Maximum backup retention: 7 days
Maximum concurrent backups: Depends on server resources

piki

DracoBlue Thanks!

VPS
AMD EPYC 9634
4 vCPU (dedicated)
8GB Ram

...so is not that slow.

piki

rdbf Got it, this answers my question. I will probably rent a storage vps then. I appreciate your answer. Thanks!