Apr 27, 2022
Upon clicking the Create your first backup or Backup site link, you will be taken to a screen to select backing up your website, database, or both. Regardless of whether your website is on WordPress or not, it is highly recommended that you always backup both the web application files and the database.
Not only is it recommended that you do this, as we will do all in our power to ensure that you have a safety net or backup system in place, but it is recommended that you either use a service like Github or another backup service, such as DigitalOcean or Vultr backups, just to ensure multiple backups are being created.
"I have too many backups here." Said no one ever.
You can have too little backups, but you can never have enough backups.
And trust us, it is a far better problem to have too many backups than no backups at all.
NOTE:
Backup Configuration
This is the place to enable backups for your Web Applications and Databases, located in the Backup menu item on the top of the dashboard. To enable or disable your backup, you will need to toggle a button to enable the backup. To view the backup summary, backup settings and backup files, click the view button.
Web Application, Database, or Both
Select Web Application
Site Label
Backup Every
Start Time
Choose a time when the RunCloud backup service should begin backing up your data.
Backup File Retention
Exclusion: Exclude Folder/File from Backup
* Automatically exlcude .git, node_modules, vendors, and storage/logs directories
* For WordPress web app, automatically exclude related backup & cache files/directories
Exclude table from backup
Send notification to Email, Slack and/or Telegram when
Create
To create backup instance for a Web Application, there are a few form fields that you need to configure.
After that, everything should be ready to go.
Backup V3 Pro External Backup
When choosing the External backup storage, you may choose to enter in the API integration key of your preferred platform.
Backup V3 Pro Local
You can also set the percentage of disk for when backups should stop so that your disk does not accidentally become full and prevent it from operating.
RunCloud Backup Options
Backup Type
Full Backup: all files are backed up every time there is a backup done. (not recommended)
Incremental: all files are backed up initially, and only files that have changed are backed up. (recommended)
Backup File Format
tar: files are backed up and zipped into a tar filetype.
tar.gz: files are compressed and zipped into a tar.gz filetype.
Once your backup options are selected and you have clicked Create, you will be taken to the next screen for a summary of your current backup.
Upon clicking Backups on the navigation menu, you will see a populated area of your
Once RunCloud begins to initiate backups of your website, you can see your Backup Snapshots and select from the following options:
Upon restoring a web application, there are several options.
Storage Type
You can also choose to delete any existing web application and database before the website is restored.
If you have any additional questions or need assistance with the new Backup V3 functionality, don't hesitate to contact the RunCloud Support Team.