Question about Automating Backups to FTP or Azure in XOCE
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Hello community! I'm new here and also new to XOA.
Currently, I have the Xen Orchestra Community Edition (XOCE) on a virtualized Ubuntu Server.
Is it possible to automate and send backups via a method different from the ones allowed by XOCE (SMB, NFS, and Local)?
For example, I am looking to automate and send backups to an FTP server or to Azure.
Thank you, community!
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Hi!
You can always mount the FTP inside your VM and then create a local BR to save your VMs into it.
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You could mount the FTP and then use it as a local one like @olivierlambert said.
The other thing to consider is S3 compatible backups, this is probably easiest if you are wanting to backup to a cloud provider, you can use any S3 compatible API, so BackBlaze for example.
Another option might be to use SMB of NFS remotely as a local mount point, most cloud providers support this, but it isn't really the recommended way to go about it and I've never validated it.
Finally, you could use a SMB gateway from like AWS or Azure, though I don't really see a point in this vs just directly to S3.
What is your end goal here? Do you want the backups somewhere super specific?
I would definitely say backup to S3 if you want remote backups, I do it in production and for my lab and it works great.
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@planedrop @olivierlambert thank you so much!!!
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@planedrop Regarding where to store the backups... yes, in this case I have a NAS and that is where I am looking to automatically store the backups.
Thank you!
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@codenin Is the NAS something local or are you hosting a NAS in Azure? I guess I just got a bit confused by the mention of Azure here. Usually, with cloud providers, you want to use their services more than just directly hosting something there. So for file storage, either S3 compatible blob storage, or using one of their file share services that exposes SMB or NFS.
