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Is it VPS or shared hosting? Also, which panel? It is cpanel or DA or other?
Currently using VPS with cpanel, but moving to webuzo in 1-2 days and want to setup on webuzo.
In cpanel you can open the crontab editor and add something like the below:
0 */6 * * * /usr/local/cpanel/bin/backup --forceI guess something similar can be done with webuzo as well.
I have daily rsync with replication for mariadb. Databases are not supposed to support rsync.
Incremental backups are better suited to your use case. This allows for more frequent backups and is less likely to cause too much stress. Exactly how to incrementally backup depends on your environment, e.g. whether it's for panels, or virtual machines, or databases ......
Webuzo seems to have a built-in admin backup function.
https://webuzo.com/docs/admin/admin-backup/
Hold my beer while I rsync my MySQL dir 🤣
(I actually do this for migrations but I shut down the DB server for a final sync, and it's definitely a "hold my beer" moment lol)
If the server versions are exactly the same, this method works great and can save a lot of time vs. a database dump and import. I've used this technique lots of times to create new replication slaves.
If the MySQL server versions are not the same, then you may be in for some surprises.
I did this very successfully between Mysql 5.6 to MariaDB 10, so not exactly the same version. But the DB (InnoDB) was only used for simple write / read operations, so that might have contributed to extra luck.
At a certain point, MariaDB and MySQL were pretty close, but then started to differ from each other more and more. I know I've had failures when trying to do this between older and newer MariaDB instances.
But if it worked for you, then that's all that matters.
Depending on what's backed up on the server, a combo of crontab and rsync should do it. There's a nice calc you can use to setup the right crontab arguments: https://crontab.guru/
can you please share me a URL of tutorial to setup it. I am using Almalinux with webuzo.
If you do have a second VM so you be able to pull the the files/databases across instead of pushing, this way less pressure on the production server.
You could try rsnapshot. A little bit complicated to set up, but one done it's really great and reliable
I first learned about it from this LEB post: https://lowendbox.com/blog/incremental-remote-backups-using-rsnapshot/
how to setup this ?
thanks, will read it carefully and will try to implement if all fine with my project.
Example: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9090817/copying-files-using-rsync-from-remote-server-to-local-machine
You can also zip or tar the files on a go so process done by backup server
Without knowing what stack or platform you are using, my recommendation would be to check Backupsheep. They have integrations for Hetzner, OVH, Digitalocean, Lightsail, Vultr and few more. If you are not using one of the providers they have plugins for, you can configure your website backups via FTP/SFTP. And there are few options to set the automations.
It lets you add your own S3 or cloud storage accounts to save your backups. You've got the option to add google drive, onedrive, Amazon S3, Backblaze, Wasabi, Scaleway, pCloud, etc. There are quite a few to select. They also provide their own storage via Amazon S3, just in case if you don't want to add your own cloud storage.
Their free account lets you add one integration, or what they call as a 'node', with a 6 hours interval between each backup. If you have a single website, their free account should be more than enough for your needs. I am on one of their paid plans and I use them to trigger snapshots of my Hetzner cloud VMs and save copies of the site backup to our Backblaze as well as our google drive account.
For what I know they are not a big company, but they are certainly growing. And for what it's worth, I've been using them for over a year and have not experienced any issues.
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Protip: check out the documentation from the project itself... I'm pretty sure you haven't.
https://webuzo.com/docs/v2/webuzo-backup-and-restore/