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Re:Ask HN: How do you back up your site hosted on a VPS such... by chatmasta on Sunday October 09, 2016 @11:16PM (#12674808)
How do you avoid that with any backup service?
Re:Ask HN: How do you back up your site hosted on a VPS such... by toomuchtodo on Sunday October 09, 2016 @11:25PM (#12674841)
Push to an S3 bucket with upload only credentials with versioning turned on.

Your master account (or superuser IAM account if you're paranoid) gives you read/write after 2FA login, but you could share your backup creds with the world and never have your backups pulled out or overwritten.

Use S3 lifecycle rules to expire backup objects after x days; data transfer in is free, the operation requests are pennies per thousand, only the bandwidth is expensive (10 cents/GB) to retrieve the backups when you need to perform a restore (even then, still very cheap).

Also, by storing in S3, you can backup and restore from anywhere.

Re:Ask HN: How do you back up your site hosted on a VPS such... by TheDong on Monday October 10, 2016 @01:16AM (#12675194)
Use a pull based one instead of a push based one.

My backup system involves my data storage system reaching out to each machine I want to backup and fetching the data locally.

All I need for that is to put my storage system's public key on the machines, and I'm fine with an attacker getting that.