Weekly backups - If I want to restore, can I backup only a certain section?

Hey friend!

With our backup system it is only possible to write the full backup image to the server. For something more specific to your use case, a custom backup solution would be best. I usually keep storage servers with various providers personally, and then run rsync cron jobs to copy data over regularly. It never hurts to have redundancy in the backup plan :)

Jarland

Hi there,

With “backups” you mean the integrated backup solution DigitalOcean offers you right? This sort of backup is a VPS-level backup and stores the complete VPS data somewhere safe.

If you would like to have seperated backups of your websites, you could either do 2 things:

• Run each website on its own VPS (Droplet) --> Higher costs, but easy management of backups
• Setup a backup system yourself, that seperates databases, files etc. --> Lower costs, but more management and setting up on your site.

Some ideas:

• You can for example use rsync to copy files to a special setup backup droplet.
• You could use a utility build for backups on files, like; Bacula, BackupPC, Duplicity, Acronis
• You could use a utility build for backups on databases, like; Percona XtraBackup, mysqldump
• Build your own backup script with a combination of other utilities.

Hope this helps you out.