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About TurnKey
The project, Debian foundation, licensing, and software integrity.
Backup fundamentals
What TKLBAM backs up, where it runs, and which storage and databases it supports.
Configure and run backups
Schedules, retention, local storage, exclusions, passphrases, and optimization.
- Can I have multiple TKLBAM backups on a single system?
- Can I use TKLBAM to only backup a single directory?
- How do I add a directory to my backup?
- How do I backup to local storage (instead of S3)?
- How do I exclude a database or table from my backup?
- How do I remove a file or directory from being included in my backup?
- How do I tune and optimize a TKLBAM backup?
- How does TKLBAM know what to backup on my system?
- How often does a full backup happen, how can I configure this?
- I forgot my passphrase, and I "lost" my escrow key. Can you help me?
- Is there a limit to how frequently I can backup?
- What's the difference between a full backup and an incremental backup?
Storage and costs
Amazon S3 storage, billing, bandwidth, access, and account isolation.
- Do I have to store my backups in the Amazon S3 storage cloud?
- How can I throttle how much bandwidth TKLBAM uses?
- How do I monitor how much traffic is being uploaded or downloaded?
- How much does cloud backup storage cost?
- The Hub says my backup costs $0.00, what am I really paying?
- What are the advantages of isolating TKLBAM Amazon S3 storage?
- What happens if my payment method to Amazon is invalidated?
- Why can't I access TKLBAM storage buckets with other Amazon S3 tools?
Reliability and recovery
How backups and restores behave when the Hub or its connection is unavailable.