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A comment on Ask HN: What's the best backup solution for shared / VPS hosts?.

Re:Ask HN: What's the best backup solution for shared / VPS ... by mattbillenstein on Thursday October 30, 2014 @06:57PM (#8536326)
For databases I use the appropriate database dump tool (pg_dump, mysqldump, etc), gzip the output, then it gets rsync'd to a backup system, then sync'd to S3 for longer term archival.

For logs, they're rotated daily by logrotate.d and compressed and then it's just the rsync + sync to S3 part. I may also sync to another cloud storage provider in the future.

So, it's not a system per-say - a combination of good open-source tools and scripts.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the best backup solution for shared / VPS ... by jonweber on Thursday October 30, 2014 @08:52PM (#8536735)
Seems like this would work great for a single server, but it's alot of work to set up a backup system like this for multiple servers (including shared hosting accounts with limited / no shell access).
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