Hey @katovonkatz,

Yes indeed, that is a good point.

I do a similar thing myself actually. I have a file server where I store my backups. Here is the script that I use to manually backup my files and database:

#!/bin/bash
# Your Database login details
# Please update those accordingly

dbHost="localhost"
dbName="my_db_name"
dbUser="my_db_user"
dbPass="my_db_pass"

#How many days the backups should be kept for before being removed
keepBackupsFor="2"

if [ ! -d ${HOME}/backups/file_backups ]; then mkdir -p ${HOME}/backups/file_backups ; fi
if [ ! -d ${HOME}/backups/manual_backups ]; then mkdir -p ${HOME}/backups/manual_backups ; fi

curTime=$(date +"%m-%d-%y_%H:%M")

# Zip the website files
tar -zcvf ${HOME}/backups/file_backups/${curTime}-my_site.tar.gz /var/www/html
wait
# Backup the database
mysqldump --single-transaction --skip-lock-tables -h ${dbHost} -u ${dbUser} -p${dbPass} ${dbName} | gzip -c > ${HOME}/backups/manual_backups/${curTime}-my_site_db.sql.gz

# Secure the backups
chmod 600 ${HOME}/backups/file_backups/*
chmod 600 ${HOME}/backups/manual_backups/*

# Sync the file backups
rsync -avz -e 'ssh' --ignore-existing ${HOME}/backups/file_backups/* sammy@my_backup_server_ip:~/file_backups/
# Sync the SQL backups
rsync -avz -e 'ssh' --ignore-existing ${HOME}/backups/manual_backups/* sammy@my_backup_server_ip:~/mysql_backups/

# Clear old backups
find ${HOME}/backups/file_backups/ -type f -mtime +${keepBackupsFor} -exec rm -f {} \;
wait
find ${HOME}/backups/manual_backups/ -type f -mtime +${keepBackupsFor} -exec rm -f {} \;

#END

I set this to run as a cron job every day at midnight. It backs archives my files and database. Then using rsync the files are copied to my file server.

On my file server, I have another cron job which deletes the files older than x number of days:

#!/bin/bash

keepBackupsFor=10

find ${HOME}/mysql_backups -type f -ctime +${keepBackupsFor} -exec rm -f {} \;
find {HOME}/file_backups -type f -ctime +${keepBackupsFor} -exec rm -f {} \;

echo 'Done'

Another thing that you could do is add block storage to your existing server and copy your manual backups there instead.

Hope that this helps!
Regards,
Bobby