Destinations Overview

Desination Storage Formats

JetBackup 5 currently supports 2 types of storage formats, depending on the Backup Destination you choose.

1. 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.
2. 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.

Destination For

There are two different Destinations you can create at this time.

1. Backup - Use the destination for configured Backup Jobs.
2. Clone - Use the destination for configured Clone Jobs.

Backup Types

• Accounts - Backup Account Data from each account that you choose to include.
• Directories - Select system files/folders to backup to the destinations.

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 databases for the initial incremental backup. If the databases are modified, JetBackup will then generate a new full dump for the incremental backup. Otherwise, the previous snap of the database dump will be used in the 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.

Read Only

This option allows you to add the destination as a "Read Only" destination. You can only restore and download existing backups from a read-only destination. Read Only is required if the Backup Directory is already owned by another destination/server. This option is only selectable upon creating the destination and will be automatically enabled for any destinations added during a Disaster Recovery.

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.

Backup 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, encrypted, and executed daily for up to 7 retained snapshots. The total compressed size of the JB Config Export Backups may vary depending on the number of backups indexed by JetBackup at the time the JB Config Export was generated. For more information, please see JetBackup Configuration Backup Job.

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).

Speed Test

Upon creating the destination, JetBackup will measure the destination download/upload speed in Mbps using a 10 MB test file. The Speed Test can be run manually and will use a 100 MB test file when doing so. Please note that charges may apply for some destinations.

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.

Object Storage and the S3 protocol

Object storage is a type of storage where data is stored as objects rather than blocks. This concept is useful for data backup, archiving, and scalability for high-load environments.

Objects are the entities of data storage in S3 buckets. S3 objects are comprised of three main parts; the content of the object (data contained in the object includiing directories or files), the unique object identifier (Unique string used to identify the item within the bucket.), and metadata. Metadata contains information such as name, size, date, security attributes, content type, and URL. Each object has an ACL or Access Control list which dictates who is permitted access to the object. S3 object storage has distinct advantages such as allowing you to avoid network bottlenecks as well as a high degree of scalability and data security.

For more information regarding the differences between Object Storage and a Traditional File System in terms of how JetBackup 5 stores your data, please click HERE.

Commonly used binaries for Local/SSH

JetBackup 5 uses rsync to generate backups and transfer them to Local and SSH Destinations. When adding these types of destinations please ensure that both the source server and destination server are able to run standard Linux commands like the following:

• mkdir
• ls
• stat
• rm
• rsync
• mv
• cd
• pwd

Please note: This is NOT an exhaustive list of required binaries.

How To Secure Local Backup Storage

Disk Info

Disabled Destinations

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