In addition to storing backups locally, the ISPManager4 panel allows you to upload them to remote storage via FTP and sFTP.

Setting up a remote backup

Let’s look at setting up such a backup using the example of uploading your backups to your Cloud Storage:

1. Log in to your ISPManager4 control panel. Go to the Maintenance section and open the Backup Plan Management tab. To create a new task, click New in the upper right corner:

2. In the open form, you will need to specify the settings for our future backup:

The settings we are interested in:

• Storage – in our case, remote FTP server. It is also possible to use sFTP by password and sFTP by key.
• FTP Server – remote host address, for example server.keepdata.thehost.ua. You can find out the address of your Cloud Storage host as follows.
• Login – active FTP user on the remote storage. In our example, ftp_user, created inside the KeepData panel.
• Password – password of such FTP user.
• Directory – path to the directory (based on the root directory for the FTP user) where the backup will be written. In our example, it is /backup/.
• Period – in our example, daily. Weekly and monthly backup options are also present.
• Overwrite the existing archive backup – we recommend activating this checkbox.

3. Confirm and save the settings. Backups for this task will be uploaded to your Cloud Storage or any other remote server you specified.