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    • IRJI
      IRJ
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      @Dashrender you bring up another good point. I think that might end up being the solution.

      Here are my goals for my web server.

      1. Backup the server
      2. Have a staging website where I can make changes and push out the updated site.
      3. Take wordpress backups daily on both staging and production websites. ( I am already using Updraft Plus for this)
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        Alex Sage
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        Check out Cloudways

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        • IRJI
          IRJ @Alex Sage
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          @anonymous said:

          Check out Cloudways

          I am not looking for another host at this time. I am quite happy with the speed and pricing of my Digital Ocean VPS

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            Alex Sage @IRJ
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            @IRJ Cloudways run on top of Digital Ocean. You would still be using Digital Ocean 🙂

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              Alex Sage
              last edited by Alex Sage

              http://www.cloudways.com/en/wordpress-cloud-hosting.php

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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller @IRJ
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                @IRJ said:

                I built a new VPS on Digital Ocean and I would like to start backing it up. Digital Ocean offers weekly backups in their plan, but I am interested to see what solutions some of you use your VPS servers.

                Image backups are a big piece of a typical VPS strategy. We use that. What you typically do in a DO style VPS scenario is leverage the image backups and then take any special backups that you need (like a database backup) and use rsync or something similar to ship key data backups off as needed.

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                • DashrenderD
                  Dashrender
                  last edited by

                  how do you take image backups?

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                  • scottalanmillerS
                    scottalanmiller @Dashrender
                    last edited by

                    @Dashrender said:

                    how do you take image backups?

                    DO does this for you, just don't turn it off.

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                    • DashrenderD
                      Dashrender @scottalanmiller
                      last edited by

                      @scottalanmiller said:

                      @Dashrender said:

                      how do you take image backups?

                      DO does this for you, just don't turn it off.

                      I thought it was mentioned DO only did backups weekly?

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                      • IRJI
                        IRJ @scottalanmiller
                        last edited by

                        @scottalanmiller said:

                        @Dashrender said:

                        how do you take image backups?

                        DO does this for you, just don't turn it off.

                        It's an extra service, but it's only 10% extra so It is worth doing. You can also take snapshots. I am not sure how long they retain them.

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                        • scottalanmillerS
                          scottalanmiller @Dashrender
                          last edited by

                          @Dashrender said:

                          @scottalanmiller said:

                          @Dashrender said:

                          how do you take image backups?

                          DO does this for you, just don't turn it off.

                          I thought it was mentioned DO only did backups weekly?

                          Yes, a weekly image of your system. It would be pretty rare that your images would need to be updated more often than that. Your data might need to be backed up often, maybe every five minutes, but you can do that in different ways depending on what you need to back up. It really isn't a generic answer beyond that - you'd want to get into specifics. Like what if you have MySQL and need daily backups or it is a file server and you need changes every fifteen minutes.

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                          • IRJI
                            IRJ @Dashrender
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                            @Dashrender said:

                            @scottalanmiller said:

                            @Dashrender said:

                            how do you take image backups?

                            DO does this for you, just don't turn it off.

                            I thought it was mentioned DO only did backups weekly?

                            For a webserver that is all you need. Wordpress will be backed up seperately, daily.

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                            • scottalanmillerS
                              scottalanmiller @IRJ
                              last edited by

                              @IRJ said:

                              @scottalanmiller said:

                              @Dashrender said:

                              how do you take image backups?

                              DO does this for you, just don't turn it off.

                              It's an extra service, but it's only 10% extra so It is worth doing. You can also take snapshots. I am not sure how long they retain them.

                              If you are using tools like Chef, Puppet or Ansible as they are intended then image backups wouldn't be necessary. Depends if you are treating it like VPS or treating it like DevOps Cloud.

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                              • IRJI
                                IRJ @scottalanmiller
                                last edited by

                                @scottalanmiller said:

                                @IRJ said:

                                @scottalanmiller said:

                                @Dashrender said:

                                how do you take image backups?

                                DO does this for you, just don't turn it off.

                                It's an extra service, but it's only 10% extra so It is worth doing. You can also take snapshots. I am not sure how long they retain them.

                                If you are using tools like Chef, Puppet or Ansible as they are intended then image backups wouldn't be necessary. Depends if you are treating it like VPS or treating it like DevOps Cloud.

                                I am not really sure how to handle this

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                                • scottalanmillerS
                                  scottalanmiller @IRJ
                                  last edited by

                                  @IRJ said:

                                  @scottalanmiller said:

                                  @IRJ said:

                                  @scottalanmiller said:

                                  @Dashrender said:

                                  how do you take image backups?

                                  DO does this for you, just don't turn it off.

                                  It's an extra service, but it's only 10% extra so It is worth doing. You can also take snapshots. I am not sure how long they retain them.

                                  If you are using tools like Chef, Puppet or Ansible as they are intended then image backups wouldn't be necessary. Depends if you are treating it like VPS or treating it like DevOps Cloud.

                                  I am not really sure how to handle this

                                  Well the thread has VPS in the title, so I'm expecting that this doesn't apply to you but I wanted to throw this out there as it is an important consideration for backups and thinking about these things. I've got an Ansible lab project coming up soon and I'll demo some of this thinking there.

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                                  • IRJI
                                    IRJ
                                    last edited by

                                    So I guess a better question would be what are my options? What are the pros and cons for each option?

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                                    • scottalanmillerS
                                      scottalanmiller @IRJ
                                      last edited by

                                      @IRJ said:

                                      So I guess a better question would be what are my options? What are the pros and cons for each option?

                                      Let's start with your workload. What are you running and what are your recovery needs?

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                                      • IRJI
                                        IRJ @scottalanmiller
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                                        @scottalanmiller said:

                                        @IRJ said:

                                        So I guess a better question would be what are my options? What are the pros and cons for each option?

                                        Let's start with your workload. What are you running and what are your recovery needs?

                                        I am running a Wordpress site. My recovery needs would be a week on the server and daily on Wordpress\database.

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                                        • scottalanmillerS
                                          scottalanmiller @IRJ
                                          last edited by

                                          @IRJ said:

                                          @scottalanmiller said:

                                          @IRJ said:

                                          So I guess a better question would be what are my options? What are the pros and cons for each option?

                                          Let's start with your workload. What are you running and what are your recovery needs?

                                          I am running a Wordpress site. My recovery needs would be a week on the server and daily on Wordpress\database.

                                          Okay, this should be pretty easy then. WordPress has built in backup tools available. Use those to automate getting a database backup to the filesystem. No need to know MySQL or MariaDB at all.

                                          Now the hard part... to where to send the backup...

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                                          • scottalanmillerS
                                            scottalanmiller
                                            last edited by

                                            Do you have another server or any sort or a desktop or something? Where would you want to store the database backup? I would typically start by looking to Rsync the files daily off to another UNIX server or NAS device somewhere.

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