BackuPHP

Start by making protection part of your routine, not an afterthought. Drop the BackuPHP installer (a single PHP file) into your site, paste the tiny snippet it provides into your homepage, and point it to your Amazon S3 bucket. On first run, set a strong passphrase; an encrypted archive is created on your server before any bytes travel to the cloud. Only someone with that passphrase can read the data, and the service never has access to it.

Configure how and when snapshots run. Choose a daily, weekly, or custom cadence, then enable change detection so only modified files are processed, saving bandwidth and storage. Cap total footprint by setting retention and maximum storage used; older recovery points are pruned automatically. For sites with databases, add a pre-backup step to dump MySQL or PostgreSQL to a temporary file so the snapshot includes a consistent copy. You can kick off a full run for the initial baseline, then let incremental jobs handle the rest.

Day to day, you’ll manage everything from a simple web link. Open the BackuPHP dashboard URL, authenticate with your license key, and review completed jobs, upcoming schedules, and storage usage—even from your phone. Content teams pushing new media, developers merging code, and store managers updating catalogs all benefit from fast incrementals and compression that keep transfers small. Need proof a backup is healthy? Enable integrity checks to verify uploads against local checksums. Tag objects in S3 for cost tracking and apply lifecycle rules to move older archives to Glacier if desired. more