Backup Solution

Backup Solution 2014-03-19

No permission to buy (£50.00)
Using a VPS from Backupsy (see my review here), set up a backup solution for your site.

All you will need to do is choose the size and location of your VPS, and I'll do the rest.

  • Install and secure the OS on your backup VPS (CentOS / Ubuntu / Debian)
  • Configure SSH keys to allow the backup VPS to connect to your main server
  • Install and configure RSNAPSHOT to perform the incremental backups of the directories you want backing up, along with the retention schedule.
  • Setup a script to export and backup your databases
My own working example:
Code:
root@backupsy:/backup# ls -hl
total 40K
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Feb 18 00:52 daily.0
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Feb 18 00:52 daily.1
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Feb 18 00:53 daily.2
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Feb 18 00:53 daily.3
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Feb 18 00:53 daily.4
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Feb 18 03:31 Databases
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Feb 18 06:01 hourly.0
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Feb 18 00:53 hourly.1
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Feb 18 00:54 hourly.2
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Feb 18 00:54 hourly.3
root@backupsy:/backup# du -sh *
23G     daily.0
153M    daily.1
115M    daily.2
129M    daily.3
4.0K    daily.4
1.7G    Databases
347M    hourly.0
186M    hourly.1
185M    hourly.2
172M    hourly.3
root@backupsy:/backup#
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Requirements
  • Root SSH access to the VPS / Server
  • Root SSH access to the Backupsy VPS
  • Any specific extra requirements can be discussed.
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After suffering catastrophic failure and corruption on our server, Matt saved the lot but it also took our backups as I had no offsite backups sorted.
We arranged a date and time and Matt set up a new server we purchased and had the backups running in no time. We run incremental and daily backups and we feel a lot safer knowing that all is backed up.
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