Off-Site Data Protection using Rsync

We’re rolling out to all VPS and Cloud Servers our new offsite data protection system this month of August. We’ll be applying the new system by batch. The current off-site backup on Premium VPS uses FTP backup which consumes a lot of resources on your server when your current disk usage is huge. FTP backup is good for small sites with small disk usage.

FTP Backup:

  1. Higher resource usage
  2. Push method
  3. Short period backup retention
  4. Prone to failure on large size backup
  5. No encryption during transfer

Off-site Data Protection with rsync:

  1. Full and incremental backup schedule
  2. Pull request
  3. Less resource usage
  4. Longer backup retention
  5. Encrypted transfer
  6. More reliable for large backup files

Recommendations:
We highly recommend getting your separate backup server. You can create a backup server from the client dashboard. The Managed Backup Server is dedicated for your use only and allows you to customize the configuration.