This guide aims to help you set up Wasabi for storing site backups. Start by signing in to Wasabi. Once logged in, it will take you to your list of buckets.
Create Bucket
Click Create Bucket.
Give the bucket a unique bucket name. A good naming scheme is “domain-name-backups”, for example, “web-for-ahona-backups”.
Select a region that’s geographically close to your server location. This will improve the time it takes to copy backup files from your server to Wasabi. For this example, we will be going with Toronto. Note the Region slug from the URL displayed. We will need that later. For our case, it’s ca-central-1
All other options can be left as the default values, and click Create Bucket to create it.
Create Access Key
On the Wasabi Dashboard, click on Access keys > Create Access Key > Root User > Create. It should show the Access Key, and Secret Key. Copy both the values, and do not close the modal as we would need them for entering in LaunchWP.
Connect to LaunchWP
Comeback to LaunchWP, and go to your Site > Backups > Providers. Click on Add New Provider. Here is a map of what you need to enter to connect.
- Provider Type – Wasabi
- Provider Name – It should be just a identifer for yourself. You can enter any name as you want.
- Access Key ID – Paste the Access key from the Wasabi Modal shown on the last screenshot.
- Secret Access Key – Paste the Secret Access key from the Wasabi shown on the last screenshot.
- Bucket Name – Remember the name of the Bucket you created? For this doc, it was web-for-ahona-backups
- Region – The Region you selected when creating the Bucket. In our case it was “ca-central-1“. If you forget what your region was, no issues, you can get it from the Bucket page of Wasabi.
After entering all details, your setup in LaunchWP should look something like below.
Finally click Add Provider.
And that’s how you can connect Wasabi with LaunchWP. Now you can create on-demand backups or schedule Automatic backups. If you face any issues, feel free to get in touch with us, and we would be more than happy to assist.
