Best backup solution for droplet?

March 17, 2014 5.7k views
ryancarr10
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ryancarr10
I am looking for an inexpensive way to backup my droplet on an hourly rate and only retain 48 hours of backups. If possible to do incremental backups would be nice but if not, no problem. My droplet is running Ubuntu 12.04 and is using 15-20gb of 40gb. One backup solution I have tried, was to use rysnc on my home computer but failed with it due to that SSH will not working properly and not sure why.
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kamaln7 MOD March 17, 2014
Take a look at https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-choose-an-effective-backup-strategy-for-your-vps.
How To Choose an Effective Backup Strategy for your VPS
by Justin Ellingwood
When dealing with any kind of important data, it is essential that you implement a backup scheme. There are many different ways to back up data on a VPS. In this guide, we will discuss some ways that you can backup your data and discuss the merits of the different options.
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FlevasGR April 3, 2014
I'm not sure but what if you shutdown your droplet from the api and then make a snapshot again automaticaly from the api?
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