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A comment on Ask HN: How do you back up your site hosted on a VPS such as Digital Ocean?.

Re:Ask HN: How do you back up your site hosted on a VPS such... by xachen on Sunday October 09, 2016 @03:31PM (#12672928)
www.tarsnap.com - it's pay as you go, encrypted and super simple to use and script using cron
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Re:Ask HN: How do you back up your site hosted on a VPS such... by buro9 on Sunday October 09, 2016 @05:22PM (#12673548)
^ this.

Github takes care of code and config.

AWS S3 takes care of uploaded static files.

But Tarsnap takes care of my database backups.

The only thing to be aware of is that restore times can be very slow.

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