I have been using a VPS for a while to host some personal projects and services that I have been using. Lately I have start to think to move all my git projects into it aswell. But at the moment, I’m not really sure how to go about off site backups of the data. How do you usually go about running backups on your servers?
I do not
I recompiled darkplaces dedicated for xonotic(aarch64), overcoming many dependency hells and pitfalls
I would be absolutely devastated to lose it and that would be a net negative to the Indian xonotic community
You’re doing god’s work.
You’re welcome!
I made this since I hated the high ping from the Australian severs
Fair! I run a US based instagib server.
Nice! I might drop in sometime, what’s the name?
It’s one of the few SMB servers left. SMB Chicago, or something like that.
Nice!
often it’s dead, people play once in a while. I’ve seen max 7 concurrent players but at the same time, I got a discord with half of them :P
Indian xonotic community
How big is the Xonotic community over here anyway?
One has just nextcloud syncing to my PC, and my RSS Reader. No backups there. My Lemmy VPS uses Hetzner full server backups.
+1 on Restic
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You can use a few tools.
RSync
Rclone - probably want this one over RSync though.
Tarsnap
Duplicati
Restic
There’s obviously a lot more, but these are some of the more popular ones.
Now you need a way to back it up. Probably the best way is to tar it up first and then dump that file. You can also get something like deadmans snitch to ensure backups don’t break.
As you mentioned, if this is just source code, then the best thing would be to create source control and have it set up that way. Then you automate it and deploy the code when you make updates and have a history of changes.
It sounds like tarsnap is your best bet though. It will be the cheapest.
You can also backup to another storage provider like Google, Dropbox, or even AWS s3. S3 can get costly, but you can archive everything to the glacier tier which is pretty cheap.
Thank you for the suggestions, I have been planning on moving my git repositories out of GitHub, into something like gitea. You gave me a good starting point to research the available options.
If you don’t want to use a hosted provider, you can at least just start using git. Just do git init. Then you can start commiting changes. This way, you at least have a history of changes. Then just back that folder up like normal
Restic to backblaze
Inexpensive
Reliable
Easy to recover
I don’t
Daily backup using Restic to wasabi s3.
Restic already speaks s3 natively, no need to mount it or anything, just point it at a bucket and hand it an api key.
You can use an api key that’s only allowed to read and write, but not delete / modify, so you’ve got some protection from ransomware.
Not using a VPS, but I use ‘restic’ to backup my servers over SFTP to my NAS.
Works really well, I do daily incremental backups and set it to keep 1 backup a day for the last week, 1 backup a week for the last 4 weeks and 1 backup per month for the last 6 months.
Having the backups “in-house” is also something to explore, since this could then become the backup for other services aswell
