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How to backup & restore a path?

Posted February 10, 2015 2.1k views

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 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.

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ryanpq 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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