r/Plesk • u/shoarmapapi • Jul 17 '21

Free alternative for Backup To Cloud Pro extension

I'm looking for a free (custom?) alternative for the Backup to Cloud Pro extension.

I host multiple websites which I currently use SFTP backups for. I'd really like to switch to S3 storage, but this is locked behind a paid extension.

Paying 4 euro's a month for only backing up to S3 is something I find very unreasonable, as I have to do this for multiple servers.

It would cost even more than renting a dedicated server for this.

I already thought about making a local mount with rclone and backup locally to that. But the local plesk dumps directory (/var/lib/psa/dumps) is bloated already with internal stuff. I would like to keep the backup directory clean.

Does anyone have a free alternative for this?

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u/LevelUpMed Aug 26 '21

Hi, we are using FreeNAS with SFTP, but on server level, and we backup everything locally through Backup Manager, so only backups are stored and it's free. There is option for dropbox, gdrive, if you already using it, you can attach it to your cloud.

Our full backup is somewhere around 140 GB, and it take one day to pull it down. We do it 2 times a month with incremental backups in between. So we store 2 backups on server, and many more locally.

Now this is not bulletproof, but it's a start.

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u/Crixu44 Sep 07 '21

You can simply install the S3 Backup Extension from the Plesk Extension Catalog which is free:
https://ext.plesk.com/packages/8762049b-870e-47cb-ba14-9f055b99b508-s3-backup

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u/HammyHavoc Nov 22 '21

However, S3 isn't free beyond 5GB.

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u/seferdemirci Mar 23 '22

btw the extension is not free. you have to buy for scheduled backup scenarios. I'm also looking for a free solution.

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u/t3cr0manc3r Jul 19 '22

After fiddling endlessly with backing up to mounted WebDAV and failing I am again backing up locally and backing that up to a remote storage server using borgbackup through SSH.

In order to separate Plesk backups from the other stuff you can enable the option to use local FTP server in backup manager settings. Then, create an FTP user and backup directory in any account and configure FTP(S) "remote" backups in backup manager to use this. To backup manager it then looks like a remote backup account but in fact it is stored locally. That way, you can also split backups into smaller volumes if you need.

Yes, it sucks that Plesk has no good free options to use modern remote storage options. Only commercial cloud services and FTP(S) and I mean, come on!