S3 Backups (beta)

In addition to the built-in Enhance backups you can configure third party S3 compatible backups from providers like Backblaze, AWS and R2 to capture backups of websites on your Enhance cluster.

S3 backups will adhere to the backup role settings in Settings > Service > Backups. You can learn more about the configurable backup role settings here.

The Enhance backup service and S3 backups can run side by side.

Tip

Enhance’s built in backup service offers efficent incremental backups whereas third party S3 comaptible backups generate a full tar.gz of each website which consume more storage on your cluster.

Setup S3 backups on Backblaze

To setup Backblaze S3 backups:

The following instructions are for connecting Backblaze. Enhance does not endorse any specific S3 storage provider.

1. Select Integrations in the left hand menu of the Enhance panel.
2. Select the Backups tab, then click Connect. A ‘Connect S3 object storage’ form will load. Leave this open.

3. In a new browser tab, login to your Backblaze account. In the left hand menu select Buckets

4. Select Create a Bucket

5. Complete the Create a Bucket form

[1] - The bucket name can be anything you like. In this example we have named the bucket ‘examplename90’.

[2] - Select Disabled

[3] - Select Disabled

[4] - Select Disabled

Select [5] to finish

6. In the left hand menu select Application Keys

7. Select Add a New Application Key

8. Complete the Add a New Application Key

[1] - The application name can be anything you like.

[2] - Select access for the relevant bucket. In this example it is the newly created bucket ‘examplename90’.

[3] - Select Read and write

Select [4] to finish

9. On completition, copy the Application Key details by clicking Copy to clipboard

10. Return to your Enhance control panel and complete the ‘Connect S3 object storage’ form:

Region: You will find this on the Buckets page. It is the section following ‘s3.’ [1] in your buckets Endpoint.

Endpoint: You will find this on the Buckets page. It is labelled Endpoint [2]

Bucket name: You will find this on the Buckets page. It is the name you gave to your Backblaze bucket during creation and can be found to the right of the bucket icon. [3]

Prefix: Enter a prefix. This can be anything you choose.

Access Key ID: You copied this to your clipboard. It is the Key ID [4].

Access key secret: You copied this to your clipboard. It is the applicationKey [5].

6. To finish, click Connect