OttoFMS has always had the ability to send your FileMaker backups to offsite S3 compatible object storage, but with version 4.6.0 (released today!) this ability is dramatically expanded.

Offsite Backups

What are offsite backups? Put simply, they are a way to send your FileMaker Backups to an external location. Sending your backups elsewhere allows you to keep more backups without worrying about disk space constraints. They can also be great to protect against any sort of disaster that might completely destroy a server, as they ensure you have versions of the files that can be deployed to a new server quickly.

So what's new?

Since its release, OttoFMS has allowed you to send the results of a single backup schedule to a single offsite S3 location. Starting in version 4.6.0 we've dramatically expanded this functionality with multiple offsite locations and schedules. This means you can now send your files to multiple locations, you can send different sets of files to different offsite locations, and you can backup different sets of files with different frequencies to match your needs.

Not only can you send more files more ways, but we have also added the abili