Automated backups would be a wonderful feature.

For now you can add a cron job as follows:

/usr/bin/php /var/aegir/drush/drush.php --root='/var/aegir/path_to_platform' 'provision' 'backup' 'site.example.com' --backend

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anarcat commented
Title: Implement automated backups » Implement automated backups workaround
Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

Actually, there's already a feature request for this: #422966: automated backups (and backups garbage collection). Thanks for documenting the workaround though.