The Backup and Migrate module is still the established method for backing up a Drupal site. It has some nice Drupal-specific features (such as truncating the cache and some other tables that is just a waste of space for backup-purposes), as well as the "smart delete" feature.

I still very much rely on Backup and Migrate module for having a robust backup of my Drupal sites.

It currently has built-in support for a single off-site backup-provider (NodeSquirrel). I am currently using NodeSquirrel (and paying for it). However, after Pantheon acquired the NodeSquirrel (May 2015) the service seems to have fallen into a black hole. For instance: support@nodesquirrel.com seems to be rerouted to /dev/null.

I need to find an alternative provider of off-site backup and I think it would be nice to continue to use Backup and Migrate for managing automatic backups, rather than starting from scratch (or forking Backup and Migrate).

For now, I just opened up this issue to sound out how the current maintainers and other users of the module feel about this.

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gisle created an issue. See original summary.

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

I am in exactly the same situation (running on 7.x). If Nodesquirrel disappears will need to find an alternative somehow.

Tony

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damienmckenna
Location TN, USA
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Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)
Related issues: +#2845676: New backup destination: NodeSquirrel (D8)

There's another issue where this is already being discussed: #2845676: New backup destination: NodeSquirrel (D8)