Under Virtualmin > Backup & Restore > Backup Virtual Servers > Destination & Format I accidentally clicked the helper on Backup format which mentions three options but I only see two:
In the screenshot that you have posted, I see two radio buttons: single archive file and one file per server. I do not see three options in Backup Format.
The helper tooltip describes each adequately.
I normally use the one file per server option. It creates a single archive file which contains everything that the backup of a virtual server has: files, mail, database and misc other stuff.
Because a download link can only ever be one file. (That probably doesn’t have to be so, but it’s never come up, AFAIK, it’s just not a common thing folks are using regularly. Implementation would be a a lot more code than it currently needs.)
If you want multiple separate files in a downloadable link, you’ll need to go one domain at a time.
But realistically, just don’t do that. Use one of the destination options. Put it in the cloud, or on a remote server via scp or whatever. For production use, you can’t be logging in every week and making a bunch of backups manually and downloading them. That’s not a sustainable backup practice.
It’s reasonable for a small system, but if you’ve got big backups, you’re going to have a lot of pain manually downloading them all the time.
Read the help text when you hover over it. There’s a third option which apparently provides a backup file in a “new” format. I’m just being curious why it doesn’t show up for me.
I have my automated backup practise. Not doing it manually. However, I’m curious as to why the third option doesn’t show up in my set-up. Is there a specific reason to it?
The final option is recommended, as it allowed individual virtual servers to be more easily restored, and saves on temporary disk space during the backup.
So? I think as explained above “no one has needed it” (or noticed it before) perhaps a better solution would be to remove the irrelevant help unless it is a future implementation.
