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Snapshotify > Settings > Storage

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Storage options

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default:"local"
Where automated backups are stored.
Local storage protects you from your own mistakes and from a bad update. It does not protect you from anything that takes out the server: a disk failure, a hack that reaches the filesystem, a hosting account suspension, or an accidental deletion of the whole site.If those matter to you, backups have to live somewhere else.
Manual backups choose their location in the create dialog, so you can send scheduled backups to the cloud and still take a quick local one before an experiment.

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Connecting a provider

Each provider card shows its connection state and, once connected, the account you signed in as and the folder backups go to.

Setting up cloud storage

Connecting each provider, what access it gets, and what happens when an upload fails.

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What the connection can see

All three providers are connected with the narrowest scope that works.
None of these can read files you uploaded yourself. That is a deliberate limit and not a limitation to work around: a backup plugin has no business reading the rest of your Drive.It also means that if you move or delete a backup by hand in the provider’s web interface, Snapshotify may no longer be able to see it.

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When an upload fails

An upload failure never fails the backup. If the archive cannot be uploaded, the backup completes as a local backup and the reason is recorded in that backup’s activity log. You end up with a working backup in the wrong place, rather than no backup at all.
This is worth knowing when reading your backup list: a row showing Local on a site configured for cloud storage is telling you an upload failed. Check that backup’s log.

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Keeping the list honest

Snapshotify periodically reconciles the list against what is actually in your cloud storage. A backup whose cloud copy has gone is demoted to local if a local copy still exists, or dropped from the list if not. If the provider’s API is unreachable, nothing is changed. An outage never causes a backup to be removed from your list.

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Local copies alongside cloud

By default a local copy is kept after a successful upload. Developers can change this with the snapshotify_keep_local_copy filter, which is useful on a server where disk space is tight.
Turning off local copies means a failed reconcile or a deleted cloud file leaves you with nothing. Only do it if disk space genuinely forces the choice.