I want to buy the server version, but how do I do auto backups?
Also, for the price of the server, selfhosted version, I can have unlimited users?
You need to know how to Manage your server. See my comments at:
Yes you can have unlimited users.
The Price is the same as Cloud Edition which also supports limited users.
See https://www.manager.io/server-edition for more details. Most importantly:
What do you mean by 12 month maintenance?
Product key that you purchase will work on subsequent versions released for the next 12 months. This means you will be able to continue upgrading to the latest version for 12 months.
What happens after 12 months of maintenance?
You can continue using purchased copy of server edition forever. However new versions won’t be eligible to work with your purchased product key. You can renew your product key which will give you access to new versions for the next 12 months.
Search the forum, you will notice that it is cheaper to use the Cloud edition in the short and long run as you do not have to spend the cost of having your own Server and maintain it and make backups, etc.
Hi, thanks for the reply.
I know how to manage my server. I am using the demo version of the server edition (to try before buying). Inside the GUI I can see the backup button. But in the ManagerServer folder, I need to be able to backup my companies without pressing this button. So I can automate it.
Is there a way to do automatic backups in the server version?
I understand.
Data security is important to us so we manage our apps on our own servers. Paying for server licence upgrades is 100% worth it because Managerio is awesome.
Manager allows the user to manually backup specific business with a name and location chosen on each occasion.
A computer owner / administrator of a computer used for anything of value should set up an automated computer backup of at least all computer specific data. Similarly the user/administrator should set up anti-virus protection, system software update, and a firewall. For computers which can be accessed from any other computer a good firewall becomes critical.
These and more, are general computer function. Paying your rent on a server is a trivial component of this.
Knowing what you don’t know is always the hard part of running a system. That is why in terms of total cost of ownership a NG Software hosted server is significantly cheaper for by far the majority of users than a self hosted server. The exception is user with real personal experience with commercial server management (or installations functioning as a desktop Manager installation ie no remote access and using a pre-existing desktop back system).
To be honest, the fact you are asking your account package to do computer system back up indicates NG Software’s Cloud server product will result in a lower total cost of ownership for you.
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As experienced server manager you should be able to use your Server’s automation tools to create backups of data folders. Be it Cronjobs for Linux, Launchd (launchctl) for macOS or Task Scheduler / PowerShell Scheduled Jobs for Windows.
As mentioned in earlier posts there is no support on how to manage a server, you can use other forums for that. Automating backups of data folders of an application belongs to that. Same for Desktop version as far as the operating system and hardware is concerned that is no business of Manager or this forum. The forum is about using the Manager app, reporting bugs, suggesting improvements, and such.
That’s right.
But in the server version I am experimenting with, I cannot see a data folder. I am not a windows guy, I can see many dll files and other folders.
Which folder holds the data? There are more files than this, but I cannot identify the data folder or file.
The Manager business data folders are never in the applications folder. Read the discussion at Location of database file for server edition
Look at the console when Manager server software is started.
It both list the current application data folder and how to change it.
Please look at other solutions. Something else will fail in the future which will cost you dearly.
The questions you ask indicate the risk is very high.
Thank you for your perspective. But we host all our software internally.
Just search on your server for .manager files (is the extension of any manager business file) to find the location of the folder. Then automate with your server tools the backup of that folder.
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Helpful. the .manager was the missing peice!