Off-site backups to your own storage

Every Magic Pages site is backed up daily, and those backups are kept away from the server running your site. That happens whether you do anything or not.

Some people want a copy somewhere they control as well — their own storage, their own retention rules. That's what off-site backups are for.

Where you can send them

You can point off-site backups at:

• S3-compatible storage — Backblaze B2, Cloudflare R2, or anything else that speaks the S3 API
• SFTP — any server you can log into
• A cloud drive — Google Drive, OneDrive or Dropbox

Setting it up

In the customer portal, open your site's settings and find the off-site backup section. Pick a destination type, add your credentials, and save. From then on, your backups get copied there automatically.

You also choose how long to keep them. The default keeps the last seven days, which is enough to catch a problem you noticed a few days late.

When something breaks

Credentials expire. Buckets get renamed. Storage fills up. If the copy fails three times in a row, we pause it and tell you, rather than retrying forever and burying you in alerts.

Your normal backups keep running the whole time. Pausing the off-site copy never touches the backups we hold for you.

Do you need this?

No. The backups included with your plan already cover you, and most sites never turn this on. It's here for the cases where you want a copy under your own control — a client site, an archive somewhere specific, or your own compliance rules.

If you're not sure whether it's worth setting up for your site, ask me and I'll tell you honestly.