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What's on your Mind? What are you working on? What are you looking forward to? (slrpnk.net)

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Just another chat thread. I love hearing your responses.

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[–] ShittyKopper@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've been thinking about how to back up my VPS.

The host I have it with does have daily backups, but they cost money and I want to do this as cheaply as possible.

So far I moved the thing from ext4 to btrfs so I could do compression and deduplication to get the "on disk" size as small as I could (without killing CPU usage, of course).

And now that I have btrfs I can also take advantage of snapshots and btrfs send/receive.

My overall plan is to use my provider's snapshotting tool every week or two (likely automatically via their API), and btrfs send things to an unused laptop at home on a more frequent basis. This way, if things do go wrong, I can immediately roll back a week (or two), after which I can "fast forward" to the latest daily(?) backup I have.

Of course I have no idea if this will actually work in practice...