{"id":3186,"date":"2015-07-29T16:34:24","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T14:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/contabo.com\/blog\/?p=3186"},"modified":"2021-12-21T14:19:48","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T13:19:48","slug":"backup-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/contabo.com\/blog\/backup-space\/","title":{"rendered":"How to use the Contabo Backup-Space"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ordering our FTP Backup-Space is always a good choice for saving important data on an external storage.<\/p>\n

Using that backup space can be done in many different ways, I will show you some of the most reliable ones.<\/p>\n

Please note, that a connection to our backup space can only be established within our datacenter. Therefore, a connection is only possible between your server and the backup server, both are located in our datacenter.<\/p>\n

You also need to configure our DNS resolvers, those resolvers are configured as default in any installation – if you changed something and need help setting them up, please contact our support. You can simply test the configuration by using ping<\/em> on your server: ping backup.contabo.net<\/span><\/code>, if the name is resolved to an IP address, your are using the correct configuration. Please notice that the name of the server can differ, for example it might be backup-2.contabo.net. You will find it in your e-mail with the credentials.<\/p>\n

Windows:<\/h5>\n

On our Windows servers you have an graphical user interface (GUI) via RDP, so a third party application such as Filezilla can be used without any annoying configuration steps. In Filezilla you can connect using the information as follows:<\/p>\n

Host: backup.contabo.net
\nUsername:
\nPassword:
\n<\/em><\/code><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You should be connected now using encryption and you can transfer all the data you want to save.<\/p>\n

\"winfilezilla\"<\/a><\/p>\n

An alternate way is to mount the backup space directly as a network drive.
\nOpen “This PC” where your drives show up and choose “add network location”.<\/p>\n

Please enter this address:
\nftp:\/\/<username>:<password>@backup.contabo.net<\/em><\/p>\n

\"winftp\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"winbup\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Unfortunately, Windows does not support an implicit FTP encryption, therefore, we highly recommend using some third party FTP client application.<\/p>\n

Linux:<\/h5>\n

On Linux you can either use an FTP client or mount the backup space using some additional software.<\/p>\n

Almost any FTP software can be used here, we recommend using lftp<\/em> which supports encryption via FTP. Depending on your distribution, the necessary package can simply be installed, e.g. by issuing apt-get install lftp <\/span><\/code>.<\/p>\n

For the best performance while transferring the data, we recommend creating an archive, e.g.
\ntar -czf backup.tar.gz \/home\/File_1 \/home\/File_2 <\/span><\/code><\/p>\n

If you\u2019re not sure about your admin rights, always enter the command sudo -i at the beginning of every session:
\nsudo -i<\/span><\/code>
\nThis command will grant you the rights of a power user, so you don\u2019t have to write the command sudo at the beginning of every command line.<\/p>\n

Now you can conveniently upload your files to the backup space using lftp<\/em>:<\/p>\n

:~# lftp
\nlftp :~> set ftp:ssl-force true
\nlftp :~> set ssl:verify-certificate no
\nlftp :~> connect backup.contabo.net
\nlftp backup.contabo.net:~> login <Username>
\nPassword:
\n<\/span><\/code><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Since you are now successfully connected to the backup space, create a directory
\nmkdir backups<\/span><\/code><\/p>\n

and move into.
\ncd backups<\/span><\/code><\/p>\n

Finally,  you can upload your archive:
\nput \/path_to_file\/backup.tar.gz .<\/span><\/code><\/p>\n

Similar to Windows, you can mount the backup space directly into the local file-system structure. On Linux you have several advantages like mounting with encryption. What you need is curlftpfs<\/em> and some dependencies.<\/p>\n

First install those packages from your repository:
\napt-get update && apt-get install fuse fuse-utils curlftpfs<\/span><\/code><\/p>\n

On Debian 8 (Ubuntu 16.04) and later the package “fuse-utils” might not be available anymore.<\/p>\n

Just enter the following to install all necessary packages and dependencies :<\/p>\n

apt update && apt install curlftpfs<\/span><\/code><\/p>\n

For CentOS 7 you need to install the EPEL repository first :
\n<\/code><\/p>\n

yum install epel-release<\/span><\/code><\/pre>\n
yum install curlftpfs<\/span><\/code><\/pre>\n
Now create a folder where you want to mount your backup space:
\nmkdir \/mnt\/ftp <\/span><\/code><\/p>\n
To avoid other users to see your password in the process overview (top, htop, ps, etc.), you need to put the following information into your .netrc<\/em> file. This file should be located in your users home directory but might has to be created first.<\/p>\n
machine backup.contabo.net
\nlogin <username>
\npassword <password>
\n<\/em><\/code><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
You can now mount the backup space via FTP with the following command:
\ncurlftpfs -o ssl,no_verify_peer backup.contabo.net \/mnt\/ftp <\/span><\/code><\/p>\n
On CentOS7 you might experience difficulties when accessing the folder, in that case try remounting the FTP without SSL encryption.<\/p>\n
umount \/mnt\/ftp\/ && curlftpfs -o no_verify_peer backup.contabo.net \/mnt\/ftp <\/span><\/code><\/p>\n
Another option is to start curlftpfs in foreground with the parameter “-f”.<\/p>\n
curlftpfs -o ssl,no_verify_peer backup.contabo.net \/mnt\/ftp -f -v<\/span><\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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