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Multiple backup rules or more options

At this moment, you can set only 1 rule to make backups (daily, weekly, or monthly). My idea is to make multiple backup rules (ex. which daily backups should be deleted) or simply make more backup options.

Ex:
I want to make daily backup and delete every older than 2 days, except one day of the week and one day of the month.

ex interface:
Make [daily/weekly/monthly] backup and keep only:
[n] daily backups (enabled only for daily backups)
[n] weekly backups (enabled for daily and weekly backups)
[n] monthly backups (enabled for daily, weekly and monthly backups)

So, if someone picks daily backups from 2 days, but also wants a 1 monthly backup, the script makes daily backups and deletes every backup older than 2 days except 1 monthly backup. This way it doesn't make double work - backup for daily backups and backup for monthly backups.

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planned  ·  AdminPlesk Staff (Community Manager, Plesk International GmbH) responded  · 

Hi all, Thanks for your input, really appreciate this! As you know, in Plesk Onyx 17.8 we made a significant improvement that allows you to use several cloud storages or even SFTP for remote backups. In Plesk Onyx 17.9 we will continue to improve Plesk Backup Manager in general and Flexible Backup Scheduler Manager in particular.

Based on the initial description and comments I can highlight 3 scenarios in the scope of this request:

#1. Keep Daily & Weekly & Monthly backups at the same time: (Example: 2 weeks of daily backups + weekly backups by each Monday)

#2. Backup to different storages (like daily to FTP and monthly to Google Drive)

#3. Multiple Storages of the same type (like 2 different FTP servers)

ID in our Issue Tracker: PPM-1701
-DL

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  • Mason Curry commented  ·   ·  Report

    At the minimum, can we at least get an option to back up more than once per day? That seems like a trivial thing to build out.

  • Lu commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please add a "hourly backup to Google Drive" option. Making remote backups every 24 hours is not good enough.

  • Alexis Gaitan commented  ·   ·  Report

    2022 and this option still not implemented? no way! how we can schedule automatic backup but excluding some domains? theres no option ? really?

    thank you

  • youcef nafa commented  ·   ·  Report

    This feature seems highly awaited by many users. Indeed, in an era of ransomware and potential incidents, it is paramount to have replicated and encrypted backups in an easy manner.

    I totally support this feature.

  • John Shiells commented  ·   ·  Report

    how many votes and months need to pass before something being highly asked for gets done.

    lets go!

  • Costin Raducanu commented  ·   ·  Report

    This feature would be definitely useful !
    Any custom workarounds would be avoided (like writing your own scripts to run from crontab) and would be manageable from same single interface.
    I fully support for all three scenarios

  • James commented  ·   ·  Report

    Definitely be nice to have more backup options, I fully support all 3 proposals

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Hope this will come soon. It‘s planned since 3 years? Why does it take so long? It‘s such an important thing to have…

  • Francois commented  ·   ·  Report

    [SARCASTIC ON]
    For which century is this feature planned?

    I would like to be able to pass the info to my descendants!
    [SARCASTIC OFF]
    :D

  • K. Devlin commented  ·   ·  Report

    These tips were very useful to me, after I had to set up a backup, after a long time restoring files.

  • Oleg Burca commented  ·   ·  Report

    So annoying you have to build custom bicycles for so simple things!
    Can you just add the possibility to have multiple backup schedules and some flexibility for retention policies?
    Is it really so difficult?

  • Tobias commented  ·   ·  Report

    Why is it taking that long.... we are all waiting for this...

    Come on

  • Alejandro commented  ·   ·  Report

    I am waiting too for this feature.

    2021-03-31

    7 years waiting for this.

  • Tobias commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please add the possibility for multiple remote backup locations :)! Would add a second layer of security :)...

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