Sorry for adding to the massive pile of backup-related question, but I could not figure out how to manage backups from existing answers…
I want to backup my VPS setup (think container-defining files, its volumes, and etc configs), but am unsure where to put it. Does keeping these in the VPS itself make sense? If so, how do I create and manage the backup?
Also, I would need a remote copy - what is the good location for this? I wish I could copy to my laptop, but obviously I cannot do that automatically. Should I pay money for a backup? I want to avoid paying lots of money just for backups. Thanks in advance!
- Create git repo
- Put all config in git repo
- Create repo on codeberg
- Clone git repo to both VPS and laptop
No extra money needed
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Please don’t use AI for simple things like this.
The Odin Project has a tutorial on Git Basics and a guide on Setting Up Git. The instructions are roughly the same whether on Github, Codeberg, etc.
Once you have the repository, it’s as simple as:
git add . git commit -m "Updated config" git push origin mainhttps://docs.codeberg.org/getting-started/first-repository/
Follow this, should suffice
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That’s what you just got shown: Shove the configgy bits into Git.
You will likely have to find the configs you want to save first.
I was hoping for a guide to capture said configs with a recommended subset. Not instructions for using git.
So no the guides don’t help with that.
Ansible if you want to do it the right way.
Or keep all of your configs in one tree and use syncthing on it If you want to phone it in. Turn on versioning call it a night.
I’d get familiar with deploying these with some infrastructure-as-code tools, and keep a git repo. Ansible is pretty easy to get started with.
Look at tools like kopia and restic. Depending on how much data you have, it should be relatively cheap to back up to backblaze b2.
If you haven’t played with Pulumi (for configuring cloud services) and Ansible (for local services, shell commands, apt installs etc) you may enjoy them as a way to capture / re-apply configuration.
Most of the time the VPS provider offers some backup solution. It’s not only about your configuration files which can easily be recreated, but about all the user data like pictures databases, etc. Which once lost can’t be recovered.
Best practice is a 3-2-1 backup: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-3-2-1-backup-strategy/
But you could back up your stuff on your laptop if you want, it’s not such a bad idea actually. For that you trigger the backup script from your laptop, you can do it automatically there too. This makes sure that the laptop is on while you’re doing the backup.
The easiest way is a crown job and a bash file which runs a couple of rsync commands to get specific files and directories from the server via ssh.
A more involved way would be a backup system like restic, which does a lot of things for you but is a bit more involved to set up.
