How to backup & restore a path?

February 10, 2015 1.8k views
cjk
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I haven’t used DigitalOcean yet but I am considering it.

Say, I am using one VPS server in DO.

1) What is the recommended way of backuping a path(and its children) and then later restoring it?
2) There seems to be image-level backup feature. If I have one image backup and I want to selective restore a path to my current VPS(not the whole thing since there could be a conflict), what is the recommended way in DO?

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  • ryanpq MOD February 10, 2015
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    I would recommend using rsync to sync a particular folder with an offsite backup, either on another droplet or a server elsewhere. You could also run rsync on your local computer in order to back up this path locally. This tutorial should be of assistance.

    How To Use Rsync to Sync Local and Remote Directories on a VPS
    by Justin Ellingwood
    Rsync is a simple tool for intelligently syncing local and remote directories. In this article we will explore the basic usage of this utility to copy files from directory to directory and from system to system.
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ryanpq MOD June 9, 2016

This question was answered by @ryanpq:

I would recommend using rsync to sync a particular folder with an offsite backup, either on another droplet or a server elsewhere. You could also run rsync on your local computer in order to back up this path locally. This tutorial should be of assistance.

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How To Use Rsync to Sync Local and Remote Directories on a VPS
by Justin Ellingwood
Rsync is a simple tool for intelligently syncing local and remote directories. In this article we will explore the basic usage of this utility to copy files from directory to directory and from system to system.
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