[Backups] Ability to add multiple storage provider/location

[robi]

@moocloud_matt proper object storage will have versioning and dedup too.

If you have source compromise you have other issues, however aspects of the push to store can be flipped in a pull to archive manner provided you have a mechanism to detect compromise and stop the pull or avoid overwrites.

[MooCloud_Matt]

@robi

@robi said in [Backups] Ability to add multiple storage provider/location:

will have versioning and dedup too

True, but dedup is a "raid" equivalent feature but scaled to multi-node.
And versioning is not efficient if combined with backup tools, because most of them don't take advantage of s3 versioning API.

So we are back on the idea that the main server if it's is compromised you want your backup to be safe, so many ransomware those days.

Yes, that's possible to do it with S3 but is not easy and requires a lot of coding from the cloudron side and is just 1 protocol, no sftp or nfs or samba, if you don't want to use a proxy s3 to nfs or like we use Ceph to smd.

Supporting 1 protocol is not what backups are in cloudron, you see more and more protocol support over time, I just help add SMB3 (with encrypt) to that list.

And I think that is amazing for cloudron users that are not geeks or professionals and want to keep their local Synology or qnap NAS as a backup.

A solution that would fit users like many that are commenting on this post is not enough. The idea I hope is to find a solution that can scale from a classic rsync stile to a 3-2-1 systems like proxmox backup or Borg.

[robi]

@moocloud_matt for your Ceph replacment you should look at Cleversafe from IBM. They also have some partners that make it even better on the user side. Komprise comes to mind.

For Cloudron, a nice rclone integration would handle most of those options nicely.

[d19dotca]

Definitely having a need for this now as I look to further improve my DR plan. What I’m hoping to achieve… faster local backups to an external block storage disk daily (possibly even multiple times given criticality of email for some users), and perhaps once a week or every 2-5 days would be an external backup to something like Wasabi to avoid any complete disasters in a single datacentre.

[girish]

Yes, this is high on our list. Just finishing up the backup async rewrite! Almost there with 7.2.

[p44]

@girish Hello Girish, any updates on this feature? Thank's

[girish]

@p44 probably the next release, this release is already a bit packed (and delayed)

[p44]

@girish Thank's, take care

[p44]

@girish Hello Girish, any news on this feature? Many thank's

[jayonrails]

I can only agree with the previous speaker. I would be very happy about an implementation. For me it is not foreseeable how much effort it can be.

[marcusquinn]

Might be a case of packaging the Rclone Web GUI as an app, then people can duplicate their main S3 backups anywhere else as a secondary routine.

• https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/7159/rclone-web-gui

[p44]

@marcusquinn This could be an alternative solution but I hope that a second backup can be configured directly in Cloudron.

[d19dotca]

Any update on this, @staff? Hopefully this will be coming soon. Multiple backup methods is important especially as businesses grow.

[p44]

@d19dotca Totally agree with this point of view: multiple backup methods are important. I hope that this feature can be added soon, so we can use different methods to store data also on multiple datacenter.

[threetrees3]

Was surprised to find that this was not already a feature built into Cloudron today.
+1

Is the concern essentially consistently between backups?

[girish]

@threetrees3 there's no concern as such, just haven't gotten around to implementing it.

When we implement it, it will be implemented as a remote copy and not creating another backup, I imagine. If we create yet another backup, I imagine the consistency problem you brought up will be a problem.

[marcusquinn]

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[girish]

@marcusquinn yes, thanks for reporting. I deleted that account.

[SansGuidon]

I'm also highly interested in such features, to the light of all backup failures faced by few folks including me recently and reported in the support and discussion forums. Could be indeed something as simple as using rclone.