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:
- Higher resource usage
- Push method
- Short period backup retention
- Prone to failure on large size backup
- No encryption during transfer
Off-site Data Protection with rsync:
- Full and incremental backup schedule
- Pull request
- Less resource usage
- Longer backup retention
- Encrypted transfer
- 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.