Different configurations for S3 and Enhance Backups

edumembe

I know it's silly, but is there any way to differentiate it with some kind of label? Also, could the backup times be configured separately? For example, incremental backups could be done every 12 hours, but S3 backups would be done weekly.

DracoBlue

edumembe
12.5.0

S3 backups are now tagged with ‘S3’ (this is visible to the end user). This is essential to highlight as S3 backups do not allow granular file restores.

Omar

edumembe +1 for options to configure backup times separately

ecomlabs

slimx

Omar +1 great idea - will take up so much less space

CamielK

Here is my comment from my other (duplicate post):
I'm currently using the S3 option as extra backup next to my backup role server.

Would like to see some features for S3:

S3 backup interval different from the normal backup interval
Hide S3 icon/backups from customers. I do not want customers to see duplicate backups from the backup role and S3. Currently customers can restore from an S3 backup even if the normal backup is available. This costs me egress and I would like customers to be unable to restore a S3 backup.
Set backup rotation with max size/days for S3. I only use S3 for a doomsday scenario so it would be nice to set the total of S3 backups to a maximum size or deleted after a number of days.

Maki187

For us this is also very importnant to have separate configuration for S3, especialy retention on S3, and just database backup.
We do backups every 2 hours, which fills up our S3 storage fast. We do use Enhance backup server, but S3 is just aditional one we use.

JohnB

Maki187 Wow that must hurt. I do daily backups to S3 and the space usage is insane for basic sites. Can't imagine 12 a day.

PDudeP

@Adam I'd love to be able to have 2 Enhance Backup servers per website, instead of 1.
I use @cPFence 's script to rsync backups to a remote server, and it seems to work just fine, but that requires manual work if the main backup server dies.

With 2 backup servers assigned to each website, I could have a backup server "local" (in the same DC of the Web/DB servers) for a very quick restore if needed and another backup server remote for those websites.
Would it be too hard?
I'd love that redundancy.

@cPFence script works fine, but I do backups every 4h and have 30 days retention. So, rsync takes several hours, because we're talking about some millions of files/hardlinks.

Thanks

ecomlabs

In my case, I need this feature as well as the ability to exclude directories from the cache, since my clients use PrestaShop and have a lot of cache files. This would improve backup performance. It’s a feature that should be coming soon, though I’m not sure how things are progressing with the roadmap.