Looking for Suggestions related to external backup drive

avinash.pudota

• August 10, 2022 02:56

Hi, I am planning to build a new cPanel server on Hetzner. I will be using NVMe SSD Datacenter Edition drives, so naturally i will be getting lesser disk space compared to normal SSD or HDD in same price. So, i am looking to implement any one of below 2 options. 1.) Purchase and Attach additional HDD drive and use it as backup partition 2.) The server which i am planning to take supports storage box. So purchase storage box at

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • August 10, 2022 15:15

  Hey there! For option 2, if you can create a user on the storage box that can be connected with over SSH or FTP or sFTP, I'd expect the cPanel backups to work well. You could just configure the FTP or sFTP option in the Additional Destinations area as outlined here:

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  avinash.pudota

  • August 11, 2022 11:48

  Thank you. Option 2 looks better. I can even link it to other server or download backups directly and even connect via FTP/SFTP which backblaze doesn't allow.

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  24x7server

  • August 12, 2022 08:19

  We would suggest you to take backup on remote Cloud storage services like AWS S3. You have multiple options for storage at much cheaper rates. Have you explored using Cloud storage like S3?

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  avinash.pudota

  • August 12, 2022 13:36

  We would suggest you to take backup on remote Cloud storage services like AWS S3. You have multiple options for storage at much cheaper rates. Have you explored using Cloud storage like S3?

  
  Yes, as i previously mentioned in my first post, i use Backblaze S3 for remote backups. I am just looking to replace local backups location.

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