Backup to S3 Bucket

[jct]

I know I saw another thread asking about this but it was closed to replies. This really needs to become a backup option to choose an s3 bucket so all backups can go there. We do this for all the websites we host now using wordpress plugins and it would be GREAT if we could push the 3cx backups directly into an s3 bucket.

I know we can do this https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-transfer-for-sftp-fully-managed-sftp-service-for-amazon-s3/ but I feel we shouldn't have to pay for another server to do something simple like push a file into an s3 bucket.

FTP is old school technology at this point!

Thanks! J

 

[cobaltit]

So this is a PBX product and frankly I prefer all the resources to focus on PBX features. You can already backup to Google Drive, and while FTP may be old, it still works just fine for purposes like this. You can also use any number of tools to copy/move the local backup files to any storage you want, as well as a map a folder directly to a variety of storage options (such as S3) and then your 'local' backup will be pushed directly to S3.

 

[VoIP-Cloud]

this.... what @cobaltit already mentioned. Sure, I would also prefer if there would be an option directly to choose a S3 location as backup instead of ftp ( as this unsecure ).
Just install Restic or Duplicacy and copy your backup folder to a S3 provider of your choice.

 

[jct]

This might be "just be a PBX" but I think disaster recovery should be a main focus of any system that a company is reliant on. I launched two systems in Lightsail which I would have to schedule disk based backups / snapshots to have a quick recovery but if I could push them to an s3 bucket for all my customers simply by configuring it in the backup options and then there was an issue I could just reinstall 3cx and click a button to restore. Features like this are what set products apart. Deployment using Lightsail is so crazy super simple that it should be just as easy to back it up instead of me having to connect to the console, install software in the back end and setup a sync. As an MSP pushing multiple customers systems backups to our company google drive just isn't an option but pushing them into an s3 bucket where we already store multiple systems / clients backups as part of our service is. Just my 2 cents!

 

[revilo951]

I'm using rclone and a cron job to push backups from local disk storage to an unsupported cloud provider (onedrive for business in my case).

rclone is cross-platform, and supports an incredible number of cloud storage systems.

 

[cobaltit]

This might be "just be a PBX" but I think disaster recovery should be a main focus of any system that a company is reliant on. I launched two systems in Lightsail which I would have to schedule disk based backups / snapshots to have a quick recovery but if I could push them to an s3 bucket for all my customers simply by configuring it in the backup options and then there was an issue I could just reinstall 3cx and click a button to restore. Features like this are what set products apart. Deployment using Lightsail is so crazy super simple that it should be just as easy to back it up instead of me having to connect to the console, install software in the back end and setup a sync. As an MSP pushing multiple customers systems backups to our company google drive just isn't an option but pushing them into an s3 bucket where we already store multiple systems / clients backups as part of our service is. Just my 2 cents!

So if you want disaster recovery don't use Lightsail? That's what AWS is for. Or pony up for an enterprise license if you are really worried about uptime. Otherwise you are simply complaining that the current cloud storage option that does exactly what you want isn't the storage option you would like. I'm also an MSP and they aren't using my preferred cloud storage solution either but I would much rather them improve the PBX product since the lack of S3 support isn't impacting my ability to sell it.