Backup storage

Choose where each backup is stored — and optionally mirror it to more than one destination.

Every backup writes to a primary storage destination. You can add secondary destinations to keep mirrored copies of the same backup in more than one place.

Choosing a destination

In the backup configuration screen, the Storage section lets you pick from the storages already connected to your Team, with a Connect storage option to add a new one. You can connect as many storages as you like and reuse them across backups.

Three kinds of destination are available:

1. A connected storage provider — S3, Google Cloud Storage, Backblaze B2, Cloudflare R2, Dropbox, SFTP, and many others. This is the usual choice: your backups land in infrastructure you own and control.
2. SimpleStorage — our managed storage, pre-configured and included in your plan quota. No setup required. See SimpleStorage.
3. Local — the backup file stays on the server that produced it. Only available as a primary destination, and not available for serverless backups (there is no server of yours involved to keep it on).

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For setup instructions for a specific provider, see the Storage providers section.

Mirroring to multiple destinations

Adding secondary destinations writes the same backup to several places in one run — the classic use case being one copy at your main provider and a second copy at a different provider or region, so a single provider outage or account compromise cannot take out every copy.

To add one, click the add button under the primary storage selector. You can configure one primary and up to three secondary destinations.

iAvailability

Multi-storage requires the Plus plan or higher. On Basic and Lite, each backup writes to a single destination. See Subscriptions.

!Where Local and SimpleStorage can be used

When two or more destinations are configured, the primary must be a connected remote storage. Beyond that:

• Local is only ever available as the primary destination, and only when it is your single destination. It is never offered in a secondary slot, and selecting Local as the primary removes the option to add further destinations.
• SimpleStorage can be the primary when it is the only destination, or a secondary destination alongside a remote primary.

So mirroring is not available for backups kept on the local server — to mirror, the primary has to be a remote storage.

Replicating to SimpleStorage

If you already store backups with your own provider, adding SimpleStorage as a secondary destination is the quickest way to get an off-provider second copy — there is nothing to configure, and it draws on the quota already included in your plan.

Paths and encryption

Each destination takes an optional path, a sub-directory within the bucket (for example mybackups/monthly), which is useful for keeping different backups or environments separated inside one bucket.

Backups can be encrypted before they leave your infrastructure. See Backup encryption.

Storage providersConnection guides for every supported storage provider.›RetentionControl how many copies are kept at each destination.›Backup encryptionEncrypt backups before they reach your storage destination.›