Using a remote mounted backup directory in HestiaCP

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Hi everyone,

I’m running HestiaCP on a dedicated server with limited SSD space. I want to avoid storing backups locally on this disk.

Instead, I’d like to mount a remote directory (hosted on my NAS via SFTP or NFS) directly into the Hestia backup path (e.g. /backup), so that HestiaCP continues to think it’s writing to a local path — but in reality, everything is stored remotely.

Is this supported or recommended?

  • Any known issues with this setup?
  • Will the backup system behave normally (retention, restore, rotation)?
  • Should I mount before the cron job? Any special permissions required?

Thanks a lot for your help!

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If you directly mount /backup, all should work normal, there should be no issue.

If its another path, have a look at Backup & Restore | Hestia Control Panel.

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this is what i am doing, but i using a S3 bucket , the system thinks its writing to /backup but its writing to my s3

so far everything is running smoothly