/backup on digital ocean volume - possible?

servtastic

• April 21, 2021 16:35

Hi All, I am currently backing up (incremental) to a D.O. volume and the "workspace" is /backup My issue is /backup is taking a LOT of my limited disk space Can anyone see any issues with changing the work directory(s) from /backup to the D.O. volume? And... will I be able to restore from that D.O. volume? Example: Current: Default Backup Directory: /backup Backup Staging Directory: /backup change to: Default Backup Directory: /mnt/volume_nyc3_04/backup Backup Staging Directory: /mnt/volume_nyc3_04/backup Final back destination is /mnt/volume_nyc3_04 Thanks! Steve

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  vacancy

  • April 21, 2021 22:08

  Yes. You can format an external storage area as ext4 or xfs, mount it to a folder and make backups to this area by editing the backup settings.

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • April 22, 2021 13:39

  As long as cPanel can read and write to it normally, I'd expect it to work fine as @vacancy said.

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  servtastic

  • April 24, 2021 01:05

  Hey - good news - since it is mounted as a standard drive everything seems to be running great. Follow up question on retention... Can i use just daily backups with a retention of say 5. That would give me 7x5 retained (incremental) backups to restore from - correct? Thanks!

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  vacancy

  • April 25, 2021 18:29

  If you set the retention setting in daily backup to 5, a historical backup of 5 days is stored. The oldest 6th day backup is deleted.

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