Feature Spotlight: JetBackup Speed Test
Unlock Faster Backups with JetBackup 5.3.13’s Speed Test Feature JetBackup 5.3.13 introduces a new feature to supercharge your backup strategy: the speed test. This test allows engineers and developers to identify the fastest backup destinations. The speed test measures the connection speed between your server and remote storage locations, helping to optimize backups and make the best-informed decision of storage providers. How to Use JetBackup’s Speed Test Using JetBackup’s speed test is simple, even in…
The Backup Wake-Up Call: Why Off-Site Backups Are Crucial
Imagine waking up one day to discover your website is not just down but gone. Then you find out it’s not just your site; it seems to be a catastrophic server failure. As you scramble to figure out what’s wrong, you receive the news you never thought you’d hear: the data center housing your servers has gone up in flames. This might sound like a doomsday scenario, but it’s far from fiction. On March 10th,…
Don’t Crowd When You Can Strike: The Power to Restore with JetBackup
In today’s digital landscape, data is the center of every business. Keeping your data secure and accessible isn’t just important, it’s essential. We’ve all heard those horror stories about system updates going haywire, causing massive disruptions and data loss. Take the recent Microsoft and CrowdStrike upgrade debacle. What should have been a routine security update ended up wreaking havoc—systems crashed and businesses faced unexpected downtime. It’s a stark reminder: always backup your data before rolling…
JetBackup Now Available on the DigitalOcean Marketplace
We are excited to announce that JetBackup is now part of the DigitalOcean Marketplace! This integration makes it easier than ever for DigitalOcean users to leverage our flexible backup solution, ensuring your data is secure and easily manageable. Why JetBackup on DigitalOcean? JetBackup was designed to enhance and streamline web hosting backup processes. Now available on DigitalOcean, it can seamlessly integrate with your droplets running the most popular operating systems, including Ubuntu and Debian. JetBackup…
Ransomware Protection: How JetBackup Helps Hosting Companies Recover Quickly from Attacks
Understanding Ransomware: Why Hosting Companies Need a Robust Backup Plan Ransomware attacks are a growing threat to businesses and individuals alike. These malicious attacks encrypt data, rendering it inaccessible until a ransom is paid. With the rise of AI and decentralized cryptocurrencies, ransomware attacks have become easier to implement and harder to trace. For hosting companies, the stakes are even higher, as these attacks can affect multiple clients simultaneously, leading to data loss, financial damage,…
Improve Performance with The JetBackup Priority System
As a general recommendation, we typically suggest scheduling your Backup Jobs during your server’s off-peak hours to get the most out of your backup times. Considering that larger accounts can often take much longer for their backups to complete, we have seen cases where backup times significantly vary depending on the time backups for certain accounts get processed. Prioritizing the backups for your accounts can be a helpful tool in optimizing your backup jobs and…
Deploy JetBackup 5 using the DigitalOcean Marketplace!
We are happy to announce that JetBackup 5 can now be deployed automatically using the DigitalOcean Marketplace. The DigitalOcean Marketplace is a One-Click App Marketplace for DigitalOcean users and is designed to make it easier for developers and companies to share One-Click Apps with the DigitalOcean community. Using the JetBackup 5 Marketplace App, you can now deploy JetBackup 5 with cPanel/WHM. The JetBackup 5 Marketplace App currently supports CentOS 7 Deployments. JetBackup Marketplace App Deployment…
JetBackup 5 Course on cPanel University!
The new JetBackup 5 Certification Course is now available online at cPanel University! This course was approved by our own JetApps Development, Support, and QA Teams. Upon completion of the exam with a passing grade, you will receive a 12-month certification for your JetBackup 5 Proficiency. JetBackup 5 Certification Course Summary In 12 short lessons, you will cover the following topics: Destinations Structure and Storage New Backup Jobs and Account Filters Restore and Downlaods Handling…
Deploy JetBackup 5 using the Linode Marketplace!
We are happy to announce that JetBackup 5 can now be deployed automatically using the Linode Marketplace. The Linode Marketplace is a One-Click App Marketplace for Linode users, and is designed to make it easier for developers and companies to share One-Click Apps with the Linode community. Using the JetBackup Marketplace App, you can now deploy JetBackup 5 on a Standalone Linux server or with cPanel/WHM. The JetBackup Marketplace App currently supports CentOS 7, CentOS…
Feature Spotlight: JetBackup 5 Hooks
In this feature spotlight, we will showcase the custom hooks feature inside of JetBackup 5. This feature gives Server Administrators the ability to execute custom scripts before (pre), or after (post) JetBackup 5 performs a function. For this post, we will go over how you can take advantage of our Custom Hooks feature to back up the contents of an Account’s ETC folder and include it in a scheduled backup job. Please note that JetBackup…