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When we first heard that Dropbox Backup was going to be a possibility with the Dropbox Backup Extension, we were pretty happy to hear this as cloud storage backup is something our clients had been asking for.
But after having used it for about 6 months, it's clear that it's a half-baked solution. I'm super confused about this. It's taken *years* for Plesk's built in backup to gain excellent and important features like:
- Limiting Disk IO and CPU
- Incremental Backups
- Exclude folders & log exclusion options
And it's wonderful now that it finally has this.
So the question is, why does the Dropbox Backup extension not take advantage of the existing Plesk features and simply work with the existing backup system, then when each backup is done, upload those files to Dropbox? It seems like the extensions is unnecessarily re-inventing the wheel and it did it by creating an octagonal shaped wheel...
Every night my dropbox backups destroy the server's IO performance because it makes a complete backup (rather than incremental), has a horribly limited scheduling system, includes all logs, and doesn't do incremental backups
But after having used it for about 6 months, it's clear that it's a half-baked solution. I'm super confused about this. It's taken *years* for Plesk's built in backup to gain excellent and important features like:
- Limiting Disk IO and CPU
- Incremental Backups
- Exclude folders & log exclusion options
And it's wonderful now that it finally has this.
So the question is, why does the Dropbox Backup extension not take advantage of the existing Plesk features and simply work with the existing backup system, then when each backup is done, upload those files to Dropbox? It seems like the extensions is unnecessarily re-inventing the wheel and it did it by creating an octagonal shaped wheel...
Every night my dropbox backups destroy the server's IO performance because it makes a complete backup (rather than incremental), has a horribly limited scheduling system, includes all logs, and doesn't do incremental backups