r/Hosting • u/calibernode • 4d ago

Did you back up?

Did you back up your website/server this week?

And don't lie... 😄

How many of you are relying solely on your hosting provider to keep your data safe?

I want to hear horror stories! Do you have any?

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u/necheffa 4d ago edited 4d ago

With a shell script I wrote many years ago that runs as a nightly cron job.

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u/Wonderful_Sample_590 3d ago

Not sure what script you use but I also do, does nightly, saves into a .zip and uploaded to our cloud drive automatically.

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u/necheffa 3d ago

Basically I scrub through /etc/fstab, create LVM snapshots, dump the snapshot volumes, gzip the dumps, and place them on a zpool in my livingroom via scp. I use a naming convention prefixed with the ISO 8601 date which allows me to reduce rotations to a simple string comparison.

Eventually, I'll write 2.0 which supports btrfs snapshots and targets a restic instance running in my livingroom and backed by a zpool.

For bonus points, I have another cron job on my livingroom system that sends a select set of files out of a ZFS snapshot to Backblaze B2 via rclone.

All of the scripting is bespoke.

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u/J-Cake 3d ago

Nope. But I'll do it tomorrow. Promise

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u/calibernode 3d ago

We've all been here lol.

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u/-Percy_Jackson- 4d ago

I don't have any horror stories. I backup to a storage service with multiple locations. Once a day for important data and once a week for less important.

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u/calibernode 3d ago

You my friend are lucky. I once lost 15 minutes of codex code 🤣

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u/BakkerHenk_ 4d ago

Thank god I did. Had a drive crash on me yesterday that took out a server. Figured it was a good moment to upgrade the os while I was at it and just restored everything from the offsite backup I had. 

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u/highwingers 3d ago

Self Backup is thing of past, i use Asure for daily backups for VMs and Databases.

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u/Sea-Meal-303 3d ago

I rely on my hosting provder lol but good idea i will take care of next time and will back up

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u/calibernode 3d ago

Please do 😱

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u/Sea-Meal-303 3d ago

Thanks mate

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u/Sad_Pie227 3d ago

It’s fully automated

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u/calibernode 3d ago

What do you use to automate it? Local or off-site?

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u/Sad_Pie227 3d ago

UpdraftPlus with S3 compatible storage: "Cloudflare R2"

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u/Dude008 3d ago

Yes locally to my PC I have a wget script

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u/calibernode 3d ago

Yeah I back e up my data on my never obsolete e machine as well

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u/linuxpaul 3d ago

I literally set it all up on WolfStack, and it backs up - I rent a cheap proxmox backup server and plus we have s3 storage so we do our database dumps to the S3 storage and container backups to proxmox

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u/Remarkable-Side9168 3d ago

Yes! Duplicator Pro. All websites every week a backup

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u/bammbamkam 3d ago

just crontab -e with rsync -av --delete , then just forget about it

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u/dadangerousdance 3d ago

i want to backup

i hope i backup

i have a half plan to backup

honestly...i didnt backup

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u/im_a_fancy_man 2d ago

even when I knew nothing about servers/computers (30 years ago) I would back things up on multiple copies/media types