With the Snapshot Professional WordPress plugin, you may safely and effectively create and retailer backups to third occasion platforms S3, Google Drive, and Dropbox.
Due to Snapshot Professional, storing backups to your favourite cloud storage set to your schedule is as simple as ever. He makes it easy to retailer backups to your host and elsewhere for added comfort and safety!
Now, that is nothing new…
Snapshot has been storing incremental backups to third occasion storage locations for some time now. Nonetheless, we embody new areas to backup to repeatedly (e.g. Dropbox), and it’s value mentioning, in case you weren’t conscious of this function.
And as you’ll see on this quick article, including a backup to third-party storage might be finished in just some clicks!
Getting Began
In fact, to get began, you’ll want Snapshot Professional. Snapshot Professional is free with a WPMU DEV membership. (Not a member? You’ll be able to attempt us free for 7-days).
After putting in and activating, you’re able to go! Kick issues off by heading to the Locations space. Get to this space from Snapshot’s dashboard or by clicking Locations on the sidebar.
From both the dashboard or the Locations space, clicking on the massive blue Add Vacation spot button will get you shifting.
You’re now able to…
Select Your third Celebration Service
As soon as clicking Add Vacation spot, you’ll select what new vacation spot you need a full copy of every backup to go to. As talked about earlier, you may select from Amazon S3, Google Drive, and Dropbox.
For the sake of demonstrating how Snapshot’s backup works, let’s go together with Dropbox.
As soon as chosen, you’ll hit Subsequent, and also you’ll undergo an authentication course of. Hit Authenticate, after which Snapshot will then ask you to sign up nevertheless you like to do with Dropbox (e.g. electronic mail, Google, or Apple).
You’ll want to offer Snapshot permission to edit, view content material, and think about & edit data. To take action, simply click on Enable.
Did it join? Snapshot will let you recognize if it’s profitable or not. If all is effectively, you’ll proceed on by clicking Subsequent.
Snapshot then reveals you the linked account. From right here, you may identify a Listing and set the variety of backups that you just wish to retailer earlier than eradicating older ones. You’ll be able to enter any quantity you want.
Subsequent, we’ll give it a Vacation spot Title. This identify is so you may simply bear in mind the place backups are saved.
Bought it named? Nice! Click on Save Vacation spot.
Your New Vacation spot
As soon as doing so, you’ll now see the brand new Dropbox vacation spot in Snapshot’s Locations space. It contains the Dropbox brand, Listing identify, schedule, and quantity of exported backups.
Click on the gear icon to edit the vacation spot, view the listing, or delete.
You may also flip this off or on with a click on of a change. In any other case, that’s it! Add as many locations as you need, and use everytime you need.
Since this was an instance with Dropbox, see easy methods to retailer to S3 and Google Drive in our documentation.
View Logs
Now that your backups are off to the races, you may view the Dropbox export vacation spot logs within the Snapshot Backups part. You’ll see the identify of your Dropbox vacation spot folder (on this case, I named it Snapshot) and think about it by All, Warning, or Error.
It reveals all the knowledge it’s essential to learn about what occurred in the course of the backup.
Storing to third Celebration Backups Is a Snap(shot)
The pliability of selecting the place your backups land, whether or not or not it’s with S3, Google Drive, or Dropbox — is as much as you. As you may see, it’s a snap!
For extra on Snapshot, make sure you take a look at easy methods to use Snapshot Professional with The Hub and easy methods to get essentially the most out of Snapshot.
And as I discussed, we’re always updating Snapshot (and all of our plugins) with new choices. Comply with alongside to see what’s subsequent in our Roadmap.