20i reseller hosting only take backups for disaster recovery which are not available to resellers, snapshot backups are available however start at £9.99 for 50 sites. Since backblaze is $0.005 per GB and you can backup unlimited sites with this script, it's cheaper and means you have your data available outside of their network.
- Schedule backups
- Download remote backups & upload to backblaze b2
- Clean up old backups
- Create an account within 20i's control panel which you will only use for backups - random domain?
- Download this script (I've bundled the vendor folder for those not familiar with composer)
- Copy this script and associated files into public_html
- Update the configuration details in
manager.php- you can obtain your API bearer token from your 20i control panel. Add the domain you're using for your backup account to prevent it from being backed up to $excludedBackups in manager.php. You don't want to backup your backups in this scenario) - Create a "Scheduled Task" for the backup schedule (Set to run every day at 12pm and enable email notifications):
/usr/bin/php71 FOLDER_PATH/public_html/manager.php -a backup - Create a "Scheduled Task" for the download and upload to backblaze schedule (Set to run every day at 6am and enable email notifications):
/usr/bin/php71 FOLDER_PATH/public_html/manager.php -a download - Create a "Scheduled Task" for the cleanup schedule (Set to run every month and enable email notifications):
/usr/bin/php71 FOLDER_PATH/public_html/manager.php -a cleanup
- The cleanup job only cleans up your backblaze bucket of old backups, once a local backup has been uploaded, it's automatically removed from your file system
- An offset between cron jobs has been set to allow the backup server time to backup all your sites.
- It's recommended to set your backblaze bucket to only save one version of a backup (Lifecycle Settings) file so you don't have any duplicate versions in the event of you running this multiple times.