Backup to External Drive on Internal Network

Hi Guys,

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE!

Consider creating a plugin that will allow me (us) to direct our backups to an offsite storage that resides on our personal networks (Intranet) in the form of an External USB drive and such.

I absolutely will not consider backing up to a cloud service whereby effectively losing ALL control of my very precious and valuable data as it is my income livelihood.

If ANY of the cloud servers such as Dropbox Amazon etc… should decide to deny me access for “whatever” reason, there is absolutely NOTHING I can do about it and my data can be held for ransom while my website is in a down state; this is not good but did happen to me via Facebook and was truly a warning going forward.

Currently, I have to “REMEMBER” to go into Updraft and download the backups to my download folder on the current workstation then move/copy them to the respective external harddrive; although this is effective, it does take a considerable amount of time.

I would suggest that you look at MacriumReflect software which is what I use to save the workstation operating systems such as Windows/Mac platforms.  It allows me to save directing to the drive I want across my internal network.

I am not suggesting that you backward engineer their software but rather have your software engineers just consider what I am typing about and create a plugin to do the same for UpdraftPlus.

As a layman, I’m just envisioning that where you select “Dropbox”, “Amazon” “FTP”, SFTP” options for remote storage, you would simply have one that says “Network, Intranet or Internal Storage” or something like that.  Then you just supply the path to something like \\Backups\UpdraftFiles\.  Of course it would be solely the user responsibility to ensure the workstations/network are accessible.

I just guessing, perhaps a cron program can be used on certain workstations to go out to the WordPress Site and run the plugin that will send the already downloaded file in the default Updraft folder to the internal network.

I trust that is clear.  :)

I would be happy to become a beta tester and I would definitely purchase the plugin if not a beta tester.