I dug around a little bit and didn't see any recommendations for this in the old requests, so here goes. It would be nice to have some sort of interface to allow Backup and Migrate to automatically move data offsite to a location specified in its Administration settings.

I like this module a lot (pretty much necessary for migrating between dev/qa/prod), but think that the manual management of data files is a little more tedious than it needs to be and any reduction of that would be welcomed.

An FTP interface might be most universal, although things like RSync could be considered too.

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dgorton’s picture

dgorton commented
Version: 5.x-1.1 » 5.x-2.x-dev
Status: Active » Needs review

This is actually a feature in the x.x-2.x branches (the version 1 branches are feature complete). Version 2 is a pretty major re-write to allow those kinds of operations. They're still not ready for prime time, but they are ready for testers - so grab one and start testing!

ronan’s picture

ronan commented
Status: Needs review » Active

Actually in v2 the only destination types currently implemented are
• Local File Directory
• Direct to database
• Email

Ftp and webdav (and maybe more) are planned as add-on modules (if anybody wants to volunteer to help with this the new api for adding destination types is pretty easy to use).

R

ronan’s picture

ronan commented
Status: Active » Fixed

The latest dev supports FTP, Amazon S3 and email backup locations. This should meet most people's off-site backup needs. If anybody has any other must-have network protocols (webdav, rsync and other cloud storage services spring to mind), please open another feature request ticket. I'd like to get a sense for what kind of demand there is for other services before I implement them.

Thanks
Ronan

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.