We take backups seriously and always tell people to back things up before performing an upgrade. An upgrade issue is rare, but backing up your data should be standard practice for any software upgrade. Regular automatic backups are important too — critical, if you ask me.

The current release supports automatic backups but we wanted to take things a little further in v3.. so, we’ve replaced normal FTP backups with SFTP backups and added Amazon S3. That’s two available backup methods. Both are secure.

Additionally, On Demand backups now have two options: Force Offsite Backup & Download Backup

This is particularly useful when you’re about to perform an upgrade or do system maintenance and want a fresh backup before you do so. Clicking “Force Offsite Backup” will send a backup to your Amazon S3 bucket, or SFTP server, or both, right away.

When configuring your backup method, it’s super easy to test your settings.

In this case, we have backups going to our Amazon S3 bucket, which you can see below.

This is just the beginning. We have plans to add additional backup methods and more in a future post-3.0 release. In v3, you can rest assured that your data is being backed up securely, and regularly, offsite.. well, as long as you configure it first!