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Which, if any, of the low end VPS provides offer backups?
I'm looking for an inexpensive Resource Pool to host a few OpenVZ VMs, and I'm looking for two things:
Do any of them offer backups, either automatic (such as once per day or week) or manually?
If not, what do you recommend as a backup solution?
The VMs will be primarily for personal and hobby use, and maybe for one a couple friends.
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Nope.
So what do you recommend? Set up two VPS's on different hosts and use rsync?
Never rely on automated backups, there are too many factors involved. That being said, we offer client managed backups and snapshots so our clients can take their own backup (offsite) or snapshot (local) when needed and they can restore either or download their snapshot for their own safe keeping (you can't restore from the download though, but you can uncompress it and get all of your files from it).
Just because you purchase a high-paying life insurance, it doesn't mean you should go out on risky physical adventures and get yourself killed.
Look after yourself because your family will probably want you to be alive rather than die and get paid handsomely.
Digital Ocean, Vapornode
I think there's a vacancy for a VestaCP for offsite ( pull)backups
I'm using another dedicated server and rsnapshot for backups in pull configuration.
My backup plan is running every hour on every server.
Not exactly a replication but a good nearly always up 2 date backup.
I believe some Netcup plans include 1 monthly manual snapshot you can download via FTP. You can purchase more on demand.
Point is to never rely on backups with the SAME PROVIDER. Because way too often providers just go down entirely.
Personally I just rsync all my boxes to a server at home. If you don't have one, then perhaps yeah, rsync to some server at a different provider.
I highly recommend both, geographic redundancy is always a good thing when it comes to backups. But you are 100% right, being able to hold your backups in your hand (i.e. a server or external drive at home) should be a priority for any backups worth any value to you.
Same provider backups are convenient if you need to recover fast in case of server failure dues to corruption or misconfiguration. But as other mentioned, is wise to have extra backups in different places (I've daily cron jobs backing important data to another server and also to a cloud account)