Do you refer to the manual backups in the SPanel User Interface? Currently, you can generate a backup and choose to save it locally or on a remote ftp server.
This is in progress. Users will be able to configure remote (ssh/rsync) incremental hourly/daily/weekly/monthly backups and specify how many recovery points to keep from each type of backup.
Please clarify more information regarding this feature. After this update, we can set an auto backup to remote storage like Google Drive, mega one drive, etc. Is there only specific storage added in this update, or can we integrate almost every cloud storage?
We are actively working on this. I can't provide an ETA yet however the end result will be a feature-rich and very powerful backup system at no additional cost for all SPanel users.
I am waiting for this too. Can you please make it compatible with Amazon S3? It would be awesome to be able to upload automatic backups to Amazon buckets.
In the first release of the improved backups we will have local and remote incremental rsync hourly/daily/weekly/monthly backups. In the 2nd release we will add more remote storage options such as Amazon S3 and other popular storage options.
We pushed the update yesterday. On the next phases we will implement support for encrypted backups (symmetric and asymmetric) and add more remote storage options such as S3 and whatever are mostly used.
Rsync local/remote backups are currently available and we are working on polishing and enhancing the backup system by adding encrypted backups, options for removing backup recovery points from both local & remote backups and also an option to lock backups in case you want to keep a specific backup recovery point a little longer.
OneDrive and Google drive are not yet available. Rsync is available and it is the most efficient, powerful and popular tool for incremental local and remote backups.
Amazon S3 is now supported in the SPanel API and will be added to the GUI in the next couple of months. If someone needs S3 backups configured, we can do that manually just contact us.
The demand for those 2 is really low. We will firstly implement S3 in the GUI. Basically, 99% of the demand goes in rsync, ftp and s3 backups. When we see enough demand for OneDrive/GDrive, we'll plan their integration to the backup system.
What does "enough demand" means? I have seen this request many times in a few posts in this plattform, and mostly every other backups system I know has backup options to OneDrive/GDrive.
Hi Aaron. I meant that there were not as many people looking to use it as there are for features such as Docker integration, CPU/RAM/IO resource limits per account, reseller hosting, DNS clustering, websites migration tool, S3 backups. We'll work on those first and then we may look at implement GDrive backups.
That's right. S3 backups were mentioned too and during my conversations with people using SPanel they mostly mentioned rsync and s3 backups and that's what we implemented so far. GDrive and Onedrive will also be added down the road however not immediately and not very soon because we are working on implementing the features I mentioned in my previous reply. We are also working on a big UX & design update which we plan to release in Q1 of 2024.
How is this mark as completed when it's not? The title of this request specifically mentioned OneDrive, Google Drive. Please also allow backup to SFTP.
Hi. There are multiple features mentioned within this single request. Some of them were completed such as SSH/rsync, FTP, AWS S3 and others were not such as Google drive, Onedrive, Dropbox. The votes in this feature request are significant however most of them relate to ssh/rsync and AWS s3. That's why I changed the status to "Completed". I am changing the status back to "Open Discussion" however it may be best if we have a separate feature request for Google drive, Onedrive, Dropbox and any others you want to see supported in the SPanel's backup system. From what I've seen, over 90% of people use ssh/rsync for backups. Rsync and S3 allow incremental backups which are most efficient. Gdrive/Onedrive/dropbox are not that popular for websites/databases backups.
Hi Yoann. You need a backup server with rsync installed. Create a user on that backup server with BASH SSH access and then you may configure remote backups via the SPanel Admin Interface -> Manage Backups. If you see difficulties, please open a ticket with support and we'll gladly help.
Regarding Backblaze, their API didn't work at the time I tried to integrate them in SPanel, talked to their support but for some weird reason, they refused to help. S3 is more powerful though and you are better off without Backblaze if you ask me :)
Hi, I have a Linux server running Ubuntu Server where I've mounted a virtual disk drive. This disk is a 1 TB OneDrive space. I use rclone to synchronize files. On the virtual disk, I have two folders: 'Desktop' and 'Downloads'. These are synchronized daily using a cron job I've set up. It works perfectly for backing up my files. Would it be possible to implement something similar in Spanel?
Absolutely! When the time comes, we'll look into this and find the most efficient way to implement it. Right now we are busy with a huge UX project to make the SPanel UI much more user friendly and easy to use. Then we'll implement the reseller hosting and CPU/RAM/IO resource usage management per user and somewhere around it will probably look into implementing Google drive backups if there is enough demand for it because right now we don't see it. Most people use remote rsync backups and here and there there are people using S3.
Hope this will be implemented. Auto backup and manual backup to gdrive, and other like platform is a must. CPanel is already implementing this feature => https://prnt.sc/CVsO3rAJwCnb
Gdrive/Onedrive/dropbox are not suitable for web servers where people would mostly benefit from incremental backups which allow them to have multiple recovery points while using minimal storage/space. That's why it is not a good idea to spend time to integrate those 3 as storage providers for backups in SPanel. We may add additional ones which support incremental backups natively though such as AWS S3 (already supported in the SPanel API).
I understand that there will be many people looking for a more affordable backup solution and SPanel must have an option for them. The cheapest backup solution which provides incremental backups is the Backblaze B2 storage which is now supported in the SPanel API.
Please open a ticket if you would like us to configure Backblaze B2 backups for any of your SPanel servers and mention how often you would like SPanel to push your data to your B2 backup storage e.g. every day or every 12 hours. You will need to provide the Backblaze bucket name, the key ID and the application key.
I'll now mark this feature request as completed as we are not going to integrate Google Drive, Dropbox etc. due to the lack of native support for incremental backups.
I have changed many of my servers to run Spanel, now without a mature Backup engine like Jetbackup for cpanel, the Spanel have all the shine but of no use. please expedite to allow FTP, remote Backup restoration and exploration.
I'm sorry but Backblaze is super expensive compared to GDrive. Your points are not entirely accurate. I can basically backup 10 servers with a single Google Workplace for Business account with 5TB of storage for just $22 a month. It doesn't matter if it cannot do incremental backups, the storage in GDrive is pretty cheap. I can have another user with 5TB and pay just $44 a month to have 10TB of storage.
You cannot dismiss a feature just because you think people won't use it.
I went to Webuzo, which already supports GDrive backups and my company is working just fine with Google Drive with all my servers. Please hear the feedback, we are the wants working with customers and offering hosting.
The incremental backup is not the one and all solution to backups and sometimes you do need the full backup.
My experience with ScalaHosting started in 2010, when the company was just getting off the ground. Over the years, the service has been of excellent quality. More than three years ago, I initiated the request to be able to perform backups on cloud services like Google Drive, Dropbox, or OneDrive.
In my case, I prefer OneDrive for my backups as it’s more convenient for me than Google Drive. Currently, I pay $4 per terabyte, which is more than enough for my needs. However, these days I still have to perform my backups manually.
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Do you refer to the manual backups in the SPanel User Interface? Currently, you can generate a backup and choose to save it locally or on a remote ftp server.
To dropbox, drive, onedrive etc would be great. Many people have these storage providers but not a remote sFTP server...
It is posible via files.com but that's 10 dollars a month...
review remote sFTP usage statistics for backups
onedrive etc would be great
This is in progress. Users will be able to configure remote (ssh/rsync) incremental hourly/daily/weekly/monthly backups and specify how many recovery points to keep from each type of backup.
This is great news! Hope there is mysql backups too please as many customers would love to back up just their data every 6 hours for maximum security.
Yes, databases are also part of the backup system and you can have hourly mysql backups done locally or/and remotely.
Dear Vlad,
Please clarify more information regarding this feature. After this update, we can set an auto backup to remote storage like Google Drive, mega one drive, etc. Is there only specific storage added in this update, or can we integrate almost every cloud storage?
Thank You
But...
After this update, we can set an auto backup to remote storage like Google Drive, one drive.?
not long to go? i'm anxious
I am waiting for this too. Can you please make it compatible with Amazon S3? It would be awesome to be able to upload automatic backups to Amazon buckets.
Backblaze too please...
Great News, this is such an important feature. Can't wait for this to be available! Thanks
In the first release of the improved backups we will have local and remote incremental rsync hourly/daily/weekly/monthly backups. In the 2nd release we will add more remote storage options such as Amazon S3 and other popular storage options.
That's good.
How it will take to release the first release of improved backups module.
And what is the current progress?
Any updates on how soon it will be rolled out?
The improved backup system is in the QA/testing phase and we'll need 15-20 more days before the release.
Very Good!
We pushed the update yesterday. On the next phases we will implement support for encrypted backups (symmetric and asymmetric) and add more remote storage options such as S3 and whatever are mostly used.
A vote here for adding Dropbox 🙏
when rsync + Onedrive + Gdrive will be available at
Rsync local/remote backups are currently available and we are working on polishing and enhancing the backup system by adding encrypted backups, options for removing backup recovery points from both local & remote backups and also an option to lock backups in case you want to keep a specific backup recovery point a little longer.
Are Rsync + OneDrive+GDrive local/remote backups currently available?
OneDrive and Google drive are not yet available. Rsync is available and it is the most efficient, powerful and popular tool for incremental local and remote backups.
Amazon S3 is now supported in the SPanel API and will be added to the GUI in the next couple of months. If someone needs S3 backups configured, we can do that manually just contact us.
Can Rsync be used with Google drive?
OneDrive and Gdrive, how is it going when we will have news?
The demand for those 2 is really low. We will firstly implement S3 in the GUI. Basically, 99% of the demand goes in rsync, ftp and s3 backups. When we see enough demand for OneDrive/GDrive, we'll plan their integration to the backup system.
What does "enough demand" means? I have seen this request many times in a few posts in this plattform, and mostly every other backups system I know has backup options to OneDrive/GDrive.
Hi Aaron. I meant that there were not as many people looking to use it as there are for features such as Docker integration, CPU/RAM/IO resource limits per account, reseller hosting, DNS clustering, websites migration tool, S3 backups. We'll work on those first and then we may look at implement GDrive backups.
the application was made by me and specifically talks about google drive and Onedrive and has 32 votes. and it is 2 years old.
That's right. S3 backups were mentioned too and during my conversations with people using SPanel they mostly mentioned rsync and s3 backups and that's what we implemented so far. GDrive and Onedrive will also be added down the road however not immediately and not very soon because we are working on implementing the features I mentioned in my previous reply. We are also working on a big UX & design update which we plan to release in Q1 of 2024.
How is this mark as completed when it's not? The title of this request specifically mentioned OneDrive, Google Drive. Please also allow backup to SFTP.
Hi. There are multiple features mentioned within this single request. Some of them were completed such as SSH/rsync, FTP, AWS S3 and others were not such as Google drive, Onedrive, Dropbox. The votes in this feature request are significant however most of them relate to ssh/rsync and AWS s3. That's why I changed the status to "Completed". I am changing the status back to "Open Discussion" however it may be best if we have a separate feature request for Google drive, Onedrive, Dropbox and any others you want to see supported in the SPanel's backup system. From what I've seen, over 90% of people use ssh/rsync for backups. Rsync and S3 allow incremental backups which are most efficient. Gdrive/Onedrive/dropbox are not that popular for websites/databases backups.
Hello Vlad,
How to use Rsync or S3 from scalahosting spanel ? Do you have any doc ?
Thanks you
:)
PS : I was first looking for backblaze but that's already ok (S3 and rsync), thanks
Hi Yoann. You need a backup server with rsync installed. Create a user on that backup server with BASH SSH access and then you may configure remote backups via the SPanel Admin Interface -> Manage Backups. If you see difficulties, please open a ticket with support and we'll gladly help.
Regarding Backblaze, their API didn't work at the time I tried to integrate them in SPanel, talked to their support but for some weird reason, they refused to help. S3 is more powerful though and you are better off without Backblaze if you ask me :)
It will be great to be able to backup at Hetzner storage boxes also
Hi, Pantelis!
Thanks for joining the SPanel Cloud Democracy Project!
Would you please submit this as a separate feature suggestion? Thanks!
Hi,
I have a Linux server running Ubuntu Server where I've mounted a virtual disk drive. This disk is a 1 TB OneDrive space. I use rclone to synchronize files. On the virtual disk, I have two folders: 'Desktop' and 'Downloads'. These are synchronized daily using a cron job I've set up. It works perfectly for backing up my files. Would it be possible to implement something similar in Spanel?
Absolutely! When the time comes, we'll look into this and find the most efficient way to implement it. Right now we are busy with a huge UX project to make the SPanel UI much more user friendly and easy to use. Then we'll implement the reseller hosting and CPU/RAM/IO resource usage management per user and somewhere around it will probably look into implementing Google drive backups if there is enough demand for it because right now we don't see it. Most people use remote rsync backups and here and there there are people using S3.
Google Drive backups are a high-demand
Hope this will be implemented. Auto backup and manual backup to gdrive, and other like platform is a must. CPanel is already implementing this feature => https://prnt.sc/CVsO3rAJwCnb
Gdrive/Onedrive/dropbox are not suitable for web servers where people would mostly benefit from incremental backups which allow them to have multiple recovery points while using minimal storage/space. That's why it is not a good idea to spend time to integrate those 3 as storage providers for backups in SPanel. We may add additional ones which support incremental backups natively though such as AWS S3 (already supported in the SPanel API).
I understand that there will be many people looking for a more affordable backup solution and SPanel must have an option for them. The cheapest backup solution which provides incremental backups is the Backblaze B2 storage which is now supported in the SPanel API.
Please open a ticket if you would like us to configure Backblaze B2 backups for any of your SPanel servers and mention how often you would like SPanel to push your data to your B2 backup storage e.g. every day or every 12 hours. You will need to provide the Backblaze bucket name, the key ID and the application key.
I'll now mark this feature request as completed as we are not going to integrate Google Drive, Dropbox etc. due to the lack of native support for incremental backups.
I have changed many of my servers to run Spanel, now without a mature Backup engine like Jetbackup for cpanel, the Spanel have all the shine but of no use. please expedite to allow FTP, remote Backup restoration and exploration.
I'm sorry but Backblaze is super expensive compared to GDrive. Your points are not entirely accurate.
I can basically backup 10 servers with a single Google Workplace for Business account with 5TB of storage for just $22 a month.
It doesn't matter if it cannot do incremental backups, the storage in GDrive is pretty cheap. I can have another user with 5TB and pay just $44 a month to have 10TB of storage.
You cannot dismiss a feature just because you think people won't use it.
I went to Webuzo, which already supports GDrive backups and my company is working just fine with Google Drive with all my servers. Please hear the feedback, we are the wants working with customers and offering hosting.
The incremental backup is not the one and all solution to backups and sometimes you do need the full backup.
My experience with ScalaHosting started in 2010, when the company was just getting off the ground. Over the years, the service has been of excellent quality. More than three years ago, I initiated the request to be able to perform backups on cloud services like Google Drive, Dropbox, or OneDrive.
In my case, I prefer OneDrive for my backups as it’s more convenient for me than Google Drive. Currently, I pay $4 per terabyte, which is more than enough for my needs. However, these days I still have to perform my backups manually.
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