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02-11-2012, 07:58 AM #1Junior Guru Wannabe
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VPS Backup Method
Hi.
I was wondering what are the methods you guys used to backup your vps and how regular? I planned to backup my vps twice daily, what is a good way doing about this?
Thinking along this line;
VPS -> Backup server twice daily -> PC nightly
Also, I came across backomatic.com, anyone uses their service? Any feedback?
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02-11-2012, 08:06 AM #2ShillBuster
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I've used Webbycart for two years.....they're excellent!
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02-11-2012, 02:55 PM #3Web Hosting Master
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I was wondering what are the methods you guys used to backup your vps and how regular?
I planned to backup my vps twice daily, what is a good way doing about this?Explore our outstanding VPS choices tailored to your budget, and we welcome reasonable offers.
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02-11-2012, 04:18 PM #5(formerly WhichGunDotCom)
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I have 3 VPS accounts, and use an extensive backup strategy that most people would find overkill. But the peace of mind is worth the small amount of time it takes to maintain the backups.
The MySQL databases are rsynced every 4 hours to my home PC. Site code (all in Subversion repositories), once a day.
For server backups:
I use my provider's free VPS backup service (through vePortal) daily. These backups are stored on a different server than my VPS host nodes.
I download these backups to my home PC daily.
I upload these backups daily to 3 separate online storage sites (free, because at the moment I need less than 2 GB for the backups, and most places offer 2 GB of storage at no cost).
Once a week (every Sunday) I download backups to an external hard drive at my girlfriend's apartment.
Twice a month (every other Thursday) I download backups to an external hard drive at my parent's house.
So at all times I have 7 backups stored on 7 different servers/PC's/external hard drives in 7 different geographical locations, 6 of those being a different geographical location than the live site. 5 of those backups are no more than 24 hours old.
All this only takes a few minutes each day.Last edited by VectorVPS; 02-11-2012 at 04:23 PM.
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02-11-2012, 09:48 PM #7Junior Guru Wannabe
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@XTremo, from what I understand from their website, their backup service uses rsync technology too. Am I right?
@alex-developer, you rsync the files to where? Anywhere I could read more on how to setup rsync service?
@Bitcable, i would take a look at both. Thanks!
@WhichGunDotCom, wow. Thats sure is overkill. What are the few online storage service you used?
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@alex-developer, you rsync the files to where? Anywhere I could read more on how to setup rsync service?
How to use the rsync you will find at URL:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-...rectories.html
and if you wish use cron and without passwords, the tutorial available at URL:
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02-12-2012, 01:22 PM #9Disabled
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Try rsync, ssh command as alex-developer said.
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02-12-2012, 02:21 PM #10ShillBuster
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02-12-2012, 07:01 PM #14Web Hosting Guru
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I use Linodes backup service. I make an attempt to save "critical" databases and such to my local computer. Honestly I should set something up to get my backups out of the Linode facility.
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02-12-2012, 07:01 PM #15Newbie
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If you want to encrypt your backups then your best bet is probably duplicity. If not then just use rsync as other people have said. Both are incredibly simple and do the job perfectly.
I've never used Backomatic but I have used BQBackup in the past and they were brilliant!
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02-13-2012, 12:37 AM #16Newbie
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This is what i like with Wiredtree Hybrid VPS, they provide R1soft backup 5 days retention while I still have daily backup with webbycart.
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02-13-2012, 03:46 AM #17(formerly WhichGunDotCom)
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I use Dropbox, Mozy, and Wuala as the 3 free online storage/backup services.
I don't think it's overkill, but I understand why many people do. But some parts are automated, and it only takes about 10 minutes of active time per day to complete everything.
I've tested myself multiple times in a worst-case scenario, having both of my production VPS accounts completely erased. Starting from a fresh OS reinstall, I can get everything set up, installed, all data restored, with all sites 100% back up and running in well under an hour.
The peace of mind knowing that I will have a very recent backup of all data available (unless there is a major regional/national disaster, in which case there would be more important things to worry about), is well worth 10 minutes each day of my time.Last edited by VectorVPS; 02-13-2012 at 03:52 AM.
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Is there any automated way of generating backups into zip/tar file?
tar -zcvf prog-1-jan-2005.tar.gz /home/my/full/path/to/directoryzip -r filename.zip directory_to_zip_recursively
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I use Dropbox, Mozy, and Wuala as the 3 free online storage/backup services.
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I use rsnapshot to download backups onto my home PC. Rsnapshot is a collection of perl scripts that use rsync to maintain incremental backups. I have backups going back 3 months using rsnapshot.
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02-14-2012, 04:41 AM #23(formerly WhichGunDotCom)
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02-15-2012, 02:30 AM #24(formerly WhichGunDotCom)
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It's a calculated risk with any backup/storage service. People make mistakes and things like that happen.
In my case, there isn't any particularly sensitive data. The code for the site is all mine (running on top of the CakePHP framework), but it's also nothing special. The data for my site took a lot of my own time to compile, and its redundant availability is much more important than its security.
Whether or not you decide to use services like this is a decision you must make on your own. Each situation is different.
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02-15-2012, 05:28 AM #25Newbie
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My VPS is with Liquid Web, and I use their daily backup service which and keep a daily backup for each of the previous 7 days. I also create a server image on a weekly basis.
In addition to this, I also use Backup Teddy for remote backups on a daily basis.
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