Backup Status

The box makes an incremental backup each night. You can store the backup on any Amazon Web Services S3-compatible service, or other options.

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.

The hostname at your rsync provider, e.g. da2327.rsync.net. Optionally includes a colon and the provider's non-standard ssh port number, e.g. u215843.your-storagebox.de:23.
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 S3-compatible bucket. You must have an AWS or other S3 service 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 S3 bucket.

Backups are stored in a Backblaze B2 bucket. You must have a Backblaze 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 Backblaze B2 bucket.

This is the minimum time backup data is kept for. The box makes an incremental backup most nights, which requires that previous backups back to the most recent full backup be preserved, so backup data is often kept much longer than this setting. Full backups are made periodically when the incremental backup data size exceeds a limit.

Available backups

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

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