Backup Status

The box makes an incremental backup each night. By default the backup is stored on the machine itself, but you can also have it stored on Amazon S3.

Configuration

Backups are stored on this machine’s own hard disk. You are responsible for periodically using SFTP (FTP over SSH) to copy the backup files from to a safe location. These files are encrypted, so they are safe to store anywhere.

Separately copy the encryption password from to a safe and secure location. You will need this file to decrypt backup files.

Backups synced to a remote machine using rsync over SSH, with local copies in . These files are encrypted, so they are safe to store anywhere.

Separately copy the encryption password from to a safe and secure location. You will need this file to decrypt backup files.

Copy the Public SSH Key above, and paste it within the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys of target user on the backup server specified above. That way you'll enable secure and passwordless authentication from your mail-in-a-box server and your backup server.

Backups are stored in an Amazon Web Services S3 bucket. You must have an AWS account already.

You MUST manually copy the encryption password from to a safe and secure location. You will need this file to decrypt backup files. It is NOT stored in your Amazon S3 bucket.

This is the minimum number of days backup data is kept for. The box makes an incremental backup, so backup data is often kept much longer. An incremental backup file that is less than this number of days old requires that all previous increments back to the most recent full backup, plus that full backup, remain available.

Available backups

The backup location currently contains the backups listed below. The total size of the backups is currently .

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