{"id":2626,"date":"2018-08-08T03:33:06","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T09:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/blog\/?p=2626"},"modified":"2026-04-29T23:49:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T05:49:42","slug":"configure-backup-to-s3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/blog\/configure-backup-to-s3\/","title":{"rendered":"Configure Backups to S3"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2626\" class=\"elementor elementor-2626\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"penci-section penci-disSticky penci-structure-10 elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1061a568 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1061a568\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"penci-ercol-100 penci-ercol-order-1 penci-sticky-ct    elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6ba04bb4\" data-id=\"6ba04bb4\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-553e1815 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"553e1815\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>1. Servers having a cPanel control panel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the WHM console, click Backup Configuration, and scroll to the bottom looking for additional destinations. Select <strong>Amazon S3<\/strong> in the <strong>Destination Type<\/strong> and Create a new destination.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the configuration page for this destination, give it a name and select the box that says transfer system backups to destination. (It says you should only do this if your connection is encrypted. Amazon S3 is an encrypted connection.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Enter the <strong>name of the<\/strong> <strong>bucket<\/strong>, <strong>Access Key ID<\/strong>, and <strong>Secret Access Key<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><\/div><div class=\"penci-more-link penci-more-link-button\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/blog\/configure-backup-to-s3\/#more-2626\" class=\"more-link elementor-more-link\"><span aria-label=\"Continue reading Configure Backups to S3\">(more&hellip;)<\/span><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Servers having a cPanel control panel &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- In the WHM console, click Backup Configuration, and scroll to the bottom looking for additional destinations. Select Amazon S3 in the Destination&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[66,1,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cpanel","category-miscellaneous","category-technical-articles"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2626"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16253,"href":"https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626\/revisions\/16253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}