I use google drive only.

It would be great to have incremental backups on Third Party Cloud services too. On some projects we use WP timecapsule which offers daily incremental backups to dropbox for serveral years already… It also offers a save updating mode, meaning it first creates a backup to dropbox of your plugin before it updates. By the way it supports several third party destinations…

These very usefull features would be great to have in one solution like Snapshot.

Hi there Michael,

like my colleague Dimitris mentioned, we intend to add user-configurable rotation for backups kept on our storage. This means that you’ll be able to keep even only one backup there, while also keep as many full site backups as you want on your external storage of your choice.

I just want to stress the fact that we have implemented this logic not because of our bottom line, but because keeping incremental backups requires an elaborate mechanism in place on the backup storage and this is what we have actually implemented on our storage.

To sum up, I hope that having user-configurable backup rotation soon will help us win you over on this, as it will help mitigate costs for you :)

Kind regards,
Leonidas

I got some feedback from our team.

1. Even though this cannot be deactivated as it is needed for the incremental backups, we will add backup rotation configuration so you can set how many backups you want to retain there.

2. Incremental backups directly on 3rd party destinations are complex to develop, there is also a task to further investigate solutions.

3. Management of 3rd party destinations from the Hub is also tasked up as it sounds like a cool feature indeed! :)

Thank you,
Dimitris

Hello there Michael

I’m sorry that v4 doesn’t meet your requirements so far. I’ve shared your feedback with the Snapshot team for further consideration though. :)

Thank you,
Dimitris

Nice attempt I guess. But I think you MISSED the point of why people want 3rd party backup options.

Also, would be nice to setup S3 once in the Hub, then be able to connect and change the folder right from the hub, so it is easy to implement on the sites (without copying and pasting the key to each site), you can just select from pre-configured accounts, and have the option to setup a folder for each domain… All right from the Hub.

So this needs 3 things to actually be functional:

1. Allow us to disable WPMUDEV destination
2. Incremental backups for 3rd party storage
3. Manage from The Hub to select pre-setup AWS account

I know this would take from WPMUDEV’s bottom line of reselling storage 4X what AWS sells for, but when you charge that much of a premium it is hard to adopt. The only reason I would use this over my Plesk servers solution, is becuase it could be included in the reporting. I am not going to pay 4X storage to remind my clients that I am doing daily backups.

Hi Dominique,

Incremental backups work only when backups stored on WPMU DEV Cloud Storage, for third-party destinations the full backup will be uploaded instead.
You can also find this information on our docs page here:
https://wpmudev.com/docs/wpmu-dev-plugins/snapshot-4-0/#destinations

Cheers,
Predrag