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I have been using a VPS for a while to host some personal projects and services that I have been using. Lately I have start to think to move all my git projects into it aswell. But at the moment, I'm not really sure how to go about off site backups of the data. How do you usually go about running backups on your servers?

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[-] outbound@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

I wrote a bash script that runs daily which 7z (AES256) the databases (well... I dump the DB as text and then 7z those files), web files (mostly WordPress), user files, all of /etc, and generate a list of all installed packages, and then copy the archives to a timestamped folder on my Google drive (I keep the last two nights, plus the last 3 Sundays).

TBH, the zipped content is around 1.5GB for each backup. So my 17GB of free GDrive space more than enough. If I actually had a significant amount of data, I'd look into a more robust long term solution.

If there was a catastrophic failure, it'd take me around six hours to rebuild a new server and test it.

[-] Elferrerito@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

That is a good idea, I was thinking on doing something similar with s3 before deciding to check what other people were doing. Thanks

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