Title: Remote Storage
Last modified: April 1, 2022

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# Remote Storage

 *  Resolved [ace0930](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ace0930/)
 * (@ace0930)
 * [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remote-storage-2/)
 * Hello, thank you for the amazing plugin. I have two questions:
 * 1) If I choose to save the backups to a remote storage, what’s the process of
   it?
    Is it saving the backup in local storage first > send to remote storage 
   from local > delete the local backup?
 * 2) How the plugin retrieve the backup to the web server? I don’t want the backup
   stores in my server, so it will only download the backup from the remote storage
   when I want to restore it? ( because I didn’t check the setting where it saves
   the backup in local storage after sending to remote storage ) Therefore, the 
   lists are only displaying the backups by scanning the remote storage but there
   is actually no backup in local server, right?

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 *  Plugin Support [tonyrobins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tonyrobins/)
 * (@tonyrobins)
 * [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remote-storage-2/#post-15516822)
 * Hi [@ace0930](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ace0930/)
 * Thanks for reaching out to us.
 * To answer your questions:
 * 1. Yes, that’s the process.
    2. That’s right. A remote backup will be retrieved
   to the web server only when you restore it.
 * All the best,
 *  Thread Starter [ace0930](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ace0930/)
 * (@ace0930)
 * [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remote-storage-2/#post-15516847)
 * [@tonyrobins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tonyrobins/) Thanks for the
   quick response. I just got one more question about the database access method.
 * I saw the word ‘support’ for PDO_MYSQL in the debug which means that I can use
   PDO already? But I saw WPDB got better compatibility, may I know what compatibility
   means here? Is it means it’s safer to access the database through WPDB?
 *  Plugin Support [tonyrobins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tonyrobins/)
 * (@tonyrobins)
 * [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remote-storage-2/#post-15517175)
 * Hi [@ace0930](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ace0930/)
 * No problem.
 * Yes, when you see the word ‘support’ for PDO_MYSQL in the debug, it means you
   can use the PDO method(you can switch between WPDB and PDO in the plugin Settings
   > Advanced).
 * ‘WPDB has better compatibility’ means WPDB is the method provided by WordPress
   which is more stable for a WordPress site, it actually has nothing to do with
   safety.
 * All the best,
 *  Thread Starter [ace0930](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ace0930/)
 * (@ace0930)
 * [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remote-storage-2/#post-15517217)
 * [@tonyrobins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tonyrobins/) The word ‘support’
   means it can be used already or it simply means the server support PDO but actually
   not yet been configured ( like download or install )?
 * But will PDO causes any problem because it’s not the default method of accessing
   the database for WordPress although it’s faster.
 *  Plugin Support [tonyrobins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tonyrobins/)
 * (@tonyrobins)
 * [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remote-storage-2/#post-15517863)
 * [@ace0930](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ace0930/)
 * It means the PDO extension is already installed on the server. So you can choose
   whether to use the PDO method or not.
 * In rare cases, using PDO method can cause an issue of ‘some content not migrated
   properly in a migration’, but it works for the most part.
 * All the best,

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 * Last activity: [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remote-storage-2/#post-15517863)
 * Status: resolved