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How to backup my backend service files?

Posted on November 4, 2014

Hello guys, can anyone teach me how to backup all the file in the cloud server? I have zero knowledge about the cloud storage but I do know how does the website hosting works, can it be like website hosting we can download all the backup file from the FTP?

Expect please guide me, thank you!



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The most-complete way would be to take a snapshot of the droplet (or enable backups). At this time you cannot download snapshots or backups from the system.

If the requirement is to download a copy of the backup you can look into things like rsync, bacula, or good old fashioned tar & gz.

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