Hi,
I am relatively new to Digital Ocean. I have about 12 droplets under my account, for various different clients.
I have backup enabled on each droplet, however i was surprised to learn that this does not include a backup of the database.
Can anyone recommend any other backup systems or scripts that will automatically backup the files and database on a daily basis… even to 3rd party storage?
Thank you in advance for your help.
This textbox defaults to using Markdown to format your answer.
You can type !ref in this text area to quickly search our full set of tutorials, documentation & marketplace offerings and insert the link!
These answers are provided by our Community. If you find them useful, show some love by clicking the heart. If you run into issues leave a comment, or add your own answer to help others.
Want to learn more? Join the DigitalOcean Community!
Join our DigitalOcean community of over a million developers for free! Get help and share knowledge in Q&A, subscribe to topics of interest, and get courses and tools that will help you grow as a developer and scale your project or business.
A droplet backup includes every single thing that is on the droplet. It’s a complete copy of the filesystem, which means that it does include your database. However, you can’t restore part of the backup only. So you can’t restore just your database.
You can set up your own backup solution using Bacula. Take a look at the following series:
Especially this tutorial:
rsync,scp, or anything else instead ofBaculaif you do not need file backups too.