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Go to Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage, enter your email address and password, and click Sign Up for B2. Select App Keys from the B2 Cloud Storage menu. Your keyID is displayed on this page. Click Create New Master Application Key to create an Application Key. BorgBackup (short: Borg) gives you: Space efficient storage of backups. Secure, authenticated encryption. Compression: LZ4, zlib, LZMA, zstd (since borg 1.1.4). Mountable backups with FUSE. Easy installation on multiple platforms: Linux, macOS, BSD. Free software (BSD license). Backed by a large and active open source community.

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Cloud Backup - How to Set Up Backblaze B2 for Cloud Backup

Cloud Backup

Backblaze B2 is a business-class cloud storage provider with extremely low costs, at $0.005/GB a month or $5/TB a month. Retrospect 12 and higher for Windows and Retrospect 14 and higher for Mac are certified for Backblaze B2 API, and Retrospect 17.5 for Windows and Mac are certified for Backblaze B2 S3-Compatible API. Follow these step-by-step instructions for setting up a Backblaze B2 account and adding it to Retrospect.

Please note that buckets created before May 4, 2020 cannot be used with Backblaze S3 Compatible APIs.

Step-by-step Guide

Video Tutorial - Retrospect Backup for Windows

Video Tutorial - Retrospect Backup for Mac

Account Setup Guide

Setting up a Backblaze B2 account is quick and easy.

Visit Backblaze B2. Type in your email address and password and click 'Sign up for B2'.
Desktop wallpapers for the mac. Backblaze B2 requires a valid phone number, so you’ll need to verify yours with a text message. This also allows you to set up two-factor authentication for added security.
After verifying your phone number, you’ll see your new Backblaze B2 account page.
Backblaze B3 provides two different interfaces that Retrospect supports: B2 API and S3 API. Let’s walk through setup for each.

Information for Retrospect using Backblaze B2 API

Retrospect needs two pieces of information to access Backblaze B2.

Account ID – Use the Account ID from above.
Application Key – Use the Application Key from above.

Note that Retrospect’s B2 API requires the master key and does not support application-specific keys. To retrieve the master key, click the 'Show Account ID and Application Key' link and then the 'Create Application Key' button.

Information for Retrospect using Backblaze S3-Compatible API

Retrospect needs two pieces of information to access Backblaze B2.

Path – s3.us-west-001.backblazeb2.com/your_bucket_name (using the endpoint URL listed in Backblaze 'Buckets' page)
Access Key: Use the Application Key ID (KeyID).
Secret Key: Use the Application Key (applicationKey).

The S3 Compatible API does not support the master key but does support application-specific keys. You’ll need to click 'Add a New Application Key' under 'App Keys' to get the 'Application Key ID' (KeyID) and the 'Application Key' (applicationKey).

The path is listed as 'Endpoint' under the bucket description on your Backblaze 'Buckets' page.

Adding Cloud Storage in Retrospect using Backblaze B2 API

Adding cloud storage as a destination is simple. Retrospect has a new set type called 'Cloud'. Create a new backup set/media set and select 'Cloud' as the type.

Next you’ll need to enter your cloud storage credentials. Retrospect allows customers to set the maximum storage usage, up to 100TB. If you have an existing bucket, type it into 'Bucket'. Otherwise, leave that field blank, and Retrospect will walk through creating a new one.

Adding Cloud Storage in Retrospect using Backblaze S3-Compatible API

Adding cloud storage as a destination is simple. Retrospect has a new set type called 'Cloud'. Create a new backup set/media set and select 'Cloud' as the type.

Using Cloud Storage in Retrospect

Using cloud storage is simple. After you have created a cloud set, create a new script or add it to an existing one, and click 'Run'. The backup will begin with the contents of the set being uploaded to your cloud storage location. You can track the progress in the execution/activity.

Throttling Cloud Backups in Retrospect

Throttling for cloud backup and cloud restore is available in Preferences.

Backblaze B2 Fireball

Retrospect Backup supports integration with B2 Fireball. However, when doing this backup, it will be important that you create a Cloud Backup Set and not a Disk Backup set for the Fireball device.

General Tips

Below are a number of tips for using cloud storage in Retrospect:

Bandwidth Measurement Tool – Measure your upload and download bandwidth with this free tool: Speedtest.net.
Disable Backup Verification – Verification will download all of the data that you upload. See more details about why you should disable it for cloud backups in Cloud Backup - Best Practices for Data Protection with Cloud Storage.

Troubleshooting

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In some cases, Retrospect Backup will receive an error during upload and need to retry. You need to set your bucket’s lifecycle to 'Keep only the last version'. Otherwise, B2 might store retain the prior incomplete copies of your RDB file, and B2 will charge you for this space.

Last Update: September 22, 2020

It goes without saying that the best cPanel backup solution must be robust, reliable, and cost-effective. Especially for web servers. Most importantly you must ensure that you have a complete and up to date backup of your server, on a remote location so that even a critical server outage, hardware failure, power failure, or any other major Data Center incident can destroy your data and websites.

During a 20 year career as a web hosting manager for Borg.Digital I have installed every backup solution you can imagine and have eventually settled on my best possible cPanel backup solution for managing both critical disasters as well as simple file or data level restores. My choice is largely driven by, best cPanel backup functionality and lowest costs of backup storage.

Borg Backup Restore

To achieve the best blend of features and cost, you have to consider 2 things in your backup solution. The Software that executes the backup schedules and provides a user interface for managing your backups. Secondly, a storage provider where your backup files will live. It is vital that you use a separate company for your backups storage compared with the backup software to ensure that your data has no single point of failure.

Whatever you do: Don’t just set up a local backup on the same server as your live websites and think that this is anywhere near good enough. This does not offer you any options if your server goes down or offline, or if your hard disk dies, which it will eventually do.

cPanel Cloud Backup Storage Providers

The ‘consumable’ resource that we are paying for to facilitate our backups is storage space. The amount of storage space we consume with our backups dictates how much money we need to pay for the storage each month. There are costs for downloading this data and uploading this data. I provide the per TB costs of each storage provider I have used in the past.

Wasabi Backups cPanel Backup Storage

Outlook for mac not syncing contacts. Wasabi describes itself as being an enterprise class instantly available, S3-compliant HOT Storage solution. It is one of the most affordable storage providers, second to Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage, but being S3-compliant means that you have the capability to integrate it with any backup software that supports Amazon S3 Storage.

How I use Wasabi.com backups:

Wasabi is very useful for providing third parties and clients access to a daily full archive backup of their entire CPanel account. It is one of the built-in destinations for the native cPanel backup system. Unfortunately, Wasabi is not yet supported by Jetbackup. I use native and Jetbackup backups at the same time on some of my client servers and have provided client logins to the Wasabi Storage dashboard where my clients can log in and download a disaster backup without needing me to assist them.

The client can provide this archive to any cPanel host in the world and get their full website, emails, and databases back online without any fuss. This is a really important service to offer your corporate clients who need to ‘remain in control’ of their critical assets.

Backblaze B2 Storage

Cost per TB: $5.99 per month (There is a complex pricing matrix that you can find here).

B2 Backblaze cPanel Backup Storage

Cost per TB: $5.00 per month

Rsync.net cPanel Backup Storage

Odbc for mac excel. Cost per TB: $25.00 per month

Google Drive cPanel Backup Storage

Cost per TB: $10.00 per month

cPanel Backup Software

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The software used for backups is the thing that provides you with a user interface for managing your backups and also your customers will use this to trigger backups and restore requests. Generally speaking the backup software is the lower costing factor in your backup strategy.

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