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Always backup your server/vps! Never trust one provider.
Always backup the important data on your servers
Whether you're hosting on AWS or on some random hosting provider stuff like Provider getting hacked, your account getting suspended for whatever reason, hardware failures or the provider 'accidently' purging your data. Or even you doing rm -rf . in the wrong directory (been there, done that)
I personally use and recommend using:
Restic a great tool that does encrypted incremental backups in a repo like way.
Along with Rclone Which you can use by itself or alongside Restic.
Then I use crontab to schedule the backups, and Healthchecks to get notified in case of an error.
All these tools are free and very easy to use. You can also get the help of your favorite LLM to write the approprite bash scripts.
Free plans on Backblaze, google drive or any storage provider supported by Rclone are usually more than enough to backup your important work. so don't cheap out on the effort.
And an important note. DO NOT backup on the same provider/account. Like never do backups of your AWS ec2 instance in AWS S3. Even if in a different region. I've seen whole AWS accounts that have dozen of years of billing history get purged.
I might be a bit paranoid about data loss, but I still suffer the pain of previously losing weeks of progress.
Do you backup your servers? and how?
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I only backup important data. One at my NAS at home which also syncs back to filen.io every night.
I like backups; it would be nice if there were a good centralised backup software.
I liked Comet Backup, but it seemed a bit broken. Then they raised the price 100x from free for their self-hosted version, and then they were bought by WebPros.
Me too. I have encrypted backups on multiple storage providers and use healthchecks to immediately get notified if something goes wrong.
I've only ever used Restic and it has been great for me. Not really familiar with any centralised backup software. Have heard of Kopia before but you probably know more on this than me.
Isn't Duplicati good for that?
I remember something about that, but for the life of me I can't remember what
Veeam is good, but no S3 support unless you give them the big bucks, could use rclone behind and mount your S3 bucket, but that seems effort.
Acronis used to be good, until it decided to kill itself.
Jetbackup seems good, so will probably stick with that.
Portabase/databasus seem like good upcoming backup tools.
How can we backup one idling server to another idling server?
Umm you could use Rsync. It's a pretty good tool for that. You could also use sftp. There are many options.
But I personally recommend using a storage provider for backups. Blackblaze is my favourite
Yes, $9/m + external HDD
I just use rclone with crontab. Backup from OVH EU -> Leaseweb CA. Different provider and different region. Another copy on my home cold storage drive (~8 drive), turned on once a week to sync.
Ideally you would use a backup solution (something like cohesity, netbackup, etc), but those are PITA to setup for me, and this simple rclone crontab combo already works for me.
I usually do rclone + crontab with backing up something like a database. which is just a list of single files.
Anything else I prefer Restic. I mess something up somewhere and I quickly just do
restic restoreand get back to workHAZI.ro offers free backups for all VMs, even if they are not guaranteed.
In the last 24 months we have managed to offer for free what can be guaranteed by paying, namely backup in another country.
VPS in Romania => Backup in Germany.
VPS in Germany => Backup in Romania.
We feel the pressure on our skin because our site is hosted with clients in Germany and in the unfortunate event of the entire account being suspended, it would be chaos to be left without an updated copy of WHMCS.
Everyone should always back up their important data.
Some people unfortunately don't. or they just get blinded by the promises of their hosting providers and depend on them completely. And suddenly their account get suspended or purged for some reason/error and now all their backups on different regions and servers on the same provider are gone. I've seen this scenario many times even on AWS.
Backups on the same hosting provider shouldn’t be considered real backups. As they are all linked to one fail point
And use different companies and data centres
rclone -idle 2kbps ???
Shit post aside, just have at least 1 copy, on whatever medium you prefer.
Will save you a lot of headache on the long run.
Cheers!