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

Re:Ask HN: How do you back up your site hosted on a VPS such... by klodolph on Sunday October 09, 2016 @05:30PM (#12673592)
Recommended change for additional peace of mind: The backup script does not have deletion privileges. A separate process expires old backups.
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Re:Ask HN: How do you back up your site hosted on a VPS such... by kyrra on Sunday October 09, 2016 @05:58PM (#12673742)
Mine used to rsync to my home Linux box and it would copy over all files and database dumps using this.

Then on the local Linux box I had a separate script that would doing snapshots of that directory to a complete different place on the filesystem.

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