Destinations Overview
A Backup destination serves as the storage location for your backup files (backup destinations can be remote or local). Below is a list and brief overview of each supported destination types so you can choose the most suitable destination for your specific needs or use case.
In general, it is almost always a best practice to make sure at least one copy of your server’s backups are located off-site (remote destination) in case of a disaster at your data center, home, or office.
Remote destinations are usually slower than local destinations to backup and restore from due to bandwidth requirements. With this in consideration, many clients choose to store at least one copy of backups locally and additional copies in at least one or more remote destinations.
Destination Types
| Destination Type | Backup Type | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Local |
|
|||||||||||||||||
| SSH |
|
|||||||||||||||||
| S3 Compatible |
|
S3 (New Backup Engine) vs SSH (Rsync): See more information about how our new backup engine works at Destination Benchmarks.
JetBackup 5 currently supports 2 types of storage formats, depending on the Backup Destination you choose.
- Rsync-Based destinations (SSH, Local), utilize the file-level storage (file-level backups), which allows you to access your backups directly and conveniently from your destination in a human-readable format.
- S3-Compatible destinations such as Amazon S3, Wasabi, Google Cloud Storage, etc.. utilizes our new Backup Engine that is using object storage format for backups. This new storage format applies JetBackup's new Proprietary Backup structure that allows for more efficient backups, and incremental capabilities to ALL destinations.
Backup Types
- Accounts - Copy files/folders from each account that you choose to include.
Backup Structures
Incremental - Backup new and changed data since the previous backup.
"Point-In-Time" incremental backups - For retentions on incremental backups, JetBackup generates "point-in-time" incremental backups that use as little space as possible (using hard links). For example, on a 2GB DirectAdmin account with 30-day backup retention, it will only consume 2GB + 30 Days worth of new/changed data. (**For databases, JetBackup generates a full dump of the database for each incremental backup).
Archived - Backup data in an uncompressed archive (.tar file format). Uncompressed backups are faster to generate but require more space.
Compressed - Backup data in a compressed archive (.tar.gz file format). Compressed backups use less space but take more time to generate.
Create New Destination
To create a new destination, click on "+ Create new Destination". Please check the Destination Type you would like to create for specific instructions.
Local Destination example:
Destination Settings
Click on the preferred destination listed in the Destinations section to expand and view the available destination settings.
Enable/Disable Destination
Click on Disable/Enable Destination to Disable/Enable your destination.
Manage Destination
Click on Manage Destination to modify your destination settings.
Browse Destination Files
Browse files and folders stored in your destination.
Snapshots Visibility
This option allows you to set the visibility of backups/snapshots stored on the destination. When disabled, the backups from the destination will not be visible to your end-users.
Export JB Config
This option enables "JetBackup configuration" backup(s) which is required to perform critical JetBackup operations such as "Disaster Recovery" and recovering from database corruption.
"JetBackup configuration" backup(s) are lightweight and are executed daily for up to 7 retained snapshots.
This backup is encrypted using the Master Encryption Key and is highly recommended to keep the key on a secure remote location (such as a password management software).
Please note that enabling Export JB Config will not execute the JetBackup configuration backup on demand. Please wait a minimum of 24 hours to ensure that JB config backup has executed.
Validate Destination
Validating a Destination checks whether your destination is valid and reachable.
Reindex Destination
Reindexing resyncs data between your server and the destination. Useful in case of adding a destination that already contains JetBackup generated backups or if changes in the destination were made manually.
Delete Destination
Deletes your destination permanently. Make sure that no backup jobs are assigned to the destination in order to delete it.
Additional Information
How To Secure Local Backup Storage
Disk Info
Disabled Destinations
Limitations
Invalid characters
JetBackup can't restore files and/or directories with the following characters: ? *
For a list of recommended special characters to avoid, please visit: Characters to Avoid when naming Files and Folders