![]() Setting up Restic is certainly easier than a low-level tool like rsync, but it can still be tricky. and literally anywhere you can SFTP (or SSH) into.īackups are encrypted by default, too, which is a tasty cherry on top! There are quite a few tools that have been around for decades that could accomplish this task - namely rsync - but an open-source tool named Restic has won my heart for both its simplicity and the wide range of destinations it natively supports, including but not limited to: The following steps are how I backup my various VPSes to a totally separate cloud in the sky. Luckily, crafting a DIY automated backup system using a second redundant storage provider isn’t as daunting (nor as expensive) as it might sound. But as Nicolas learned the hard way, any amount of backups are just more eggs in the same basket if everything is under one account with one credit card on one provider. Most of the popular one-click server providers (including DigitalOcean, as well as Linode, Vultr, and OVH) provide their own backup offerings for an additional monthly cost (usually proportional to your plan). ![]() “Let’s just take advantage of cloud computing’s #1 selling point: press a few buttons to make our servers harder, better, faster, stronger and get back to coding!” Hindsight is always 20/20, of course, but if we’re talking about a small side project that exploded into a full-fledged startup with Fortune 500 clients seemingly overnight, I completely understand Nicolas’ thought process. Predictably, there were a lot of Monday- morning quarterbacks who weighed in, scolding him for not having backups ( he did, but they were also stored on DigitalOcean) and not paying a boatload of non-existent money for expensive load balancers pointing to multiple cloud providers.
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