Retention question with remote and local source
I'm trying to sort out the whole backup system for my VPS.
This is on an InMotion VPS with WHM 124.
I can only keep 4 backups at most on the local drive, but I send backups to Amazon S3 where I would prefer to keep and entire couple weeks.
I've seen many posts in these forums about retention but most of them are 6-8 years old. Am I to believe the situation is exactly the same as it was 8 years ago? We have no better settings for our local and remote retention?
If not, has anybody come up with a way to keep more copies on remote than on local?
Thanks!
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Hey there! That is correct - there currently isn't a way to change the retention settings between local and remote destinations inside cPanel. If you use an additional backup tool such as JetBackup they do have more advanced options like this available.
I will say, this is one of the more common requests we get and I've let the backup team know we had another request for this as well.
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I figured it was not an option but I still wanted to get my voice out there.
I can't use the built-in backup in WHM since no more than 3 copies can be stored locally before the drive fills up, which makes my remote storage somewhat useless as I can't even have it archive longer due to that. Or if I turn on the setting to remove the local backup, I won't even have one single local backup to make recovery faster.
So then to get more backups I paid InMotion for their extra backup service which is offsite storage, only to find out they really only take 2 backups by default.
It's like why is it so hard to have standard long term retention?
Now I have to consider buying a 3rd backup system just to try and get some normal backup retention. It really needs a proper solution!
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Oh I get it - especially if you have several domains that are larger accounts, the space can go quickly when you're concerned about redundancy.
I've relayed all that feedback to the backup team as well - thanks for sharing.
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Same question i had what will i do?
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Patrick Hollow - your best bet at this time would be to use a third-party backup tool that meets your needs. If our team does end up expanding the backup solution we'll be sure to make an announcement.
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