S3 Storage

• Create S3 bucket and setup credentials for it
• Go to your Odoo
• Open the menu [[ Backups ]] >> Settings
• Set following fields:
  • S3 Bucket
  • Path, e.g. odoo-backups. Note that the folder must exist. Keep empty to save backups directly to the root folder
  • Access Key ID
  • Secret Access Key

Backup Schedule and rotation

To setup backups do as following:

• Open the menu [[ Backups ]] >> Dashboard.

• Click on the [Add Database] button in the dashboard header.

  • Database: select one of your databases

  • Encrypt your backup if you need, but do not forget the password

  • Scheduled Auto Backups

    • Interval type an interval value and select a unit of measure. Example: make backups every 1 day.
    • Next Execution Date: It shows next planned auto backup date. You can correct this. Example: make every day at night time.

  • Auto Rotation: If you have set up the auto backup, you can specify how many backups to preserve for certain time frames.

    Example: The module makes auto backup your database every night. You want to preserve 2 daily backups and 1 weekly only. Then

    • Set up Daily and Weekly rotation options as Limited and put the numbers in limit fields.
    • All other options mark as Disabled.

  • After all required fields will be filled, click on the [Save] button.

Manual backups

• Configure Backup Schedule as described above
• Open the menu [[ Backups ]] >> Dashboard
• Click on [Make Backup now]

RESULT: Backup is created. Note, that the manual backup creation may take some time before being ready.

Downloading backups to computer

• Be sure that you have Backup: Manager access level
• Open [[ Backups ]] >> Backups menu
• Click on needed Backup from the list
• Click on Download button and wait until download completes

RESULT: Backup is downloaded.

• If Backup is encrypted (it has .enc extension), extract it using gpg utility. For example:

  gpg --output OUTPUT_FILENAME.zip --decrypt INPUT_FILENAME.zip.enc
  

Backup Dashboard

• Open the menu [[ Backups ]] >> Dashboard

RESULT: You can see the main Graph with the general statistics of all your backups are stored on a remote server.