After logging in to your FastPanel, go to the SiteCard of the website you wish to create a cron job for and click on Backup copies:
If you don't have any accounts or plans already set up, you will see this message, so click on the button:
After you click on the All accounts and plans button, you will be redirected to this page:
You will have 3 tabs here:
- Accounts - for managing backup accounts
- Plans - for managing full backup plans
- Differential plans - for managing differential backup plans
Tab Accounts
In the upper right corner, you will see the +New Account button. This button opens up a page where you can create backup accounts:
To create a new backup account, you will need to fill out this form:
- Name - name for the account
- Type - leave it as local
- Email - email address where you would like to receive notifications about backups
- Path - path to the directory where you would like to store your backups
The type text field can have other values:
- SCP
- FTP
- Local
- Dropbox
- Fastbackup
Depending on the type of backup, you can select the option that works best for you.
SCP
This option lets you connect to another server using SCP so you can store your backups there.
To use it, you need to fill out this form:
- Name - name for the account
- Type - select SCP
- User - user on the other server
- Password - password for the user on the other server
- Email - email address where you would like to receive notifications about backups
- Host - hostname or IP address of the other server
- Path - path to the directory where you would like to store your backups on the other server
- Port - this is set to 22, the default SSH port, don't change it unless the other server uses a different port
FTP
This option lets you connect to another server using FTP so you can store your backups there.
To use it, you will need to fill out a form similar to the SCP one. The difference is that the port is 21.
This option is for connecting your Google Drive so you can store your backups there.
To use it, you need to fill out this form:
- Name - name of the account
- Type - select Google
- Email - email address where you would like to receive notifications about backups
- Path - path to the directory where you would like to store your backups
- Confirmation code - here is a confirmation code you will need to use after clicking on "Link to enter the confirmation code", after that, you need to log in to your Gmail account and give permissions to connect to the Google Drive
Dropbox
This option is for connecting your Dropbox account so you can store your backups there.
The form you need to fill out is similar to the Google one, but here you need to click on the "Get the code via the link" to get the code and enter it in the textbox for it.
Fastbackup
This is a paid option from FastPanel where you can buy storage space from them and use it to store your backups.
To use it, you need to fill out this form:
- Name - name of the account
- Type - select FASTBACKUP
- Email - email address where you would like to receive notifications about backups
- Link - here goes the access link you get from FastPanel after buying the storage
Plans
In this tab, you can create new backup plans. Click on the +New plan button in the upper right corner.
After you click on that button, this page will open up:
- Name - name of the backup plan
- Account - select a backup account from the drop-down menu
- Backup copies limit - enter how many copies you wish to have at the same time (keep in mind how much free space you have available)
- Sites - select websites from the drop-down menu that you wish to create backups of
- Databases - select the databases from the drop-down menu that you wish to create backups of
- Start time - choose how often you wish for your backups to be created from the drop-down menu or use the Configure button for a custom plan:
- Annualy
- Monthly
- Weekly
- Daily
- Custom - this will open up the same pop-up window as the Configure button:
Differential plans
In this tab, you can manage differential backup plans. To create a new plan, click on the +New Plan button in the upper right corner.
After that, a new page with 2 tabs will open up:
- Single user - create a backup plan for a single FP user
- All users - create a backup plan for all FP users
Single user
To use it, you need to fill out this form:
- Name - name of the backup plan
- Account - select a backup account from the drop-down menu
- Copies limit - enter how many copies you wish to have at the same time (keep in mind how much free space you have available)
- Full - limit for full backups
- Partial - limit for differential backups
- Schedule - same as the Start time from the previous section
- User - from the drop-down menu, you can choose the FP user whose websites/databases you wish to backup
- Exclusions - list all the files you wish to exclude from the backup
- Exclude mail
- Exclude logs
- Databases - from the drop-down menu, you can choose the databases you wish to include in the backup
- Compression - choose what kind of compression you want to use for your backups
- Type - choose between Gzip and ZSTD
- Level - choose between faster backups or better compression
If you wish for your backups to be encrypted, you can check this last checkbox and then enter the passphrase you wish to use.
Warning: Keep your passphrase safe. After creating a backup plan, you CANNOT view or change it anymore.
All users
The form you need to fill out is almost the same as the Single user one, the difference is that instead of choosing one FP user, you are given an option to exclude FP users.
