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Oracle Cloud Free - Backup Scripts

nimdynimdy Member
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Does anyone have any scripts to enable automatic backups of VMs on the Oracle free tier? I've only found one guide on the Oracle site itself, but the script doesn't work for me.

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  • jcolidelesjcolideles Member

    Borgbackup

  • FatGrizzlyFatGrizzly Member, Host Rep

    Try this?

    https://github.com/matze19999/Oracle-Cloud-Free-Backup-Script

    Thanked by 1TimboJones
  • TimRooTimRoo Member
    edited October 2022

    Just an FYI to backup to a residential IP and not a VPS of another sort. It's suspected that accounts were being terminated for using VPNs, and data centers that house VPS systems are typically in the same IP range. See the main Oracle Cloud thread for discussion.

    Thanked by 1alilet
  • emghemgh Member

    @TimRoo said:
    Just an FYI to backup to a residential IP and not a VPS of another sort. It's suspected that accounts were being terminated for using VPNs, and data centers that house VPS systems are typically in the same IP range. See the main Oracle Cloud thread for discussion.

    That’s extremely stupid and limiting, if that’s the case.

  • nimdynimdy Member

    @FatGrizzly said:
    Try this?

    https://github.com/matze19999/Oracle-Cloud-Free-Backup-Script

    Thanks, I'll give it a go. The readme for that GitHub basically says that the guide the Oracle guy wrote no longer works because Oracle changed the APIs, which must be the problem I had. I'll see if this tweaked script works for me.

  • nimdynimdy Member

    @TimRoo said:
    Just an FYI to backup to a residential IP and not a VPS of another sort. It's suspected that accounts were being terminated for using VPNs, and data centers that house VPS systems are typically in the same IP range. See the main Oracle Cloud thread for discussion.

    Thanks, I'll bear that in mind.

  • TimboJonesTimboJones Member

    @nimdy said:

    @TimRoo said:
    Just an FYI to backup to a residential IP and not a VPS of another sort. It's suspected that accounts were being terminated for using VPNs, and data centers that house VPS systems are typically in the same IP range. See the main Oracle Cloud thread for discussion.

    Thanks, I'll bear that in mind.

    I believe it was just one command to handle a tenancy thing.

    Also, this just backs up to Oracle and restores to Oracle easily. This won't protect if your Oracle account gets closed unexpectedly (seems to be more common than losing a VM to hardware failure these days), so you still need another off-site solution for your data that can't be replaced easily.

  • nimdynimdy Member
    edited October 2022

    @TimboJones said:

    @nimdy said:

    @TimRoo said:
    Just an FYI to backup to a residential IP and not a VPS of another sort. It's suspected that accounts were being terminated for using VPNs, and data centers that house VPS systems are typically in the same IP range. See the main Oracle Cloud thread for discussion.

    Thanks, I'll bear that in mind.

    I believe it was just one command to handle a tenancy thing.

    Also, this just backs up to Oracle and restores to Oracle easily. This won't protect if your Oracle account gets closed unexpectedly (seems to be more common than losing a VM to hardware failure these days), so you still need another off-site solution for your data that can't be replaced easily.

    I'm hoping to have three types of backup in place - entire VM backed up within Oracle, VM zipped and backed up to third party storage, and finally a wordpress backup to a third location. At the moment my current Digital Ocean VM is only backed up to DO, so that is a bit risky at the moment.

  • linhnguyensglinhnguyensg Member

    @nimdy said:

    @TimboJones said:

    @nimdy said:

    @TimRoo said:
    Just an FYI to backup to a residential IP and not a VPS of another sort. It's suspected that accounts were being terminated for using VPNs, and data centers that house VPS systems are typically in the same IP range. See the main Oracle Cloud thread for discussion.

    Thanks, I'll bear that in mind.

    I believe it was just one command to handle a tenancy thing.

    Also, this just backs up to Oracle and restores to Oracle easily. This won't protect if your Oracle account gets closed unexpectedly (seems to be more common than losing a VM to hardware failure these days), so you still need another off-site solution for your data that can't be replaced easily.

    I'm hoping to have three types of backup in place - entire VM backed up within Oracle, VM zipped and backed up to third party storage, and finally a wordpress backup to a third location. At the moment my current Digital Ocean VM is only backed up to DO, so that is a bit risky at the moment.

    For wordpress, you can try some wordpress plugins to automatic backup to dropbox or gdrive.

  • aliletalilet Member
    edited October 2022

    @TimRoo said:
    Just an FYI to backup to a residential IP and not a VPS of another sort. It's suspected that accounts were being terminated for using VPNs, and data centers that house VPS systems are typically in the same IP range. See the main Oracle Cloud thread for discussion.

    My account was terminated. I was using a cron job to backup wordpress site from VirMach VPS to Oracle VPS.

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