How I backed up and booted locally my entire VPS

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨german@pawb.social⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩

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Documented my journey backing up my Oracle Cloud server. With their latest changes to always free, I don’t think my instance will last very long. This isn’t a tutorial, there are probably many much better ways to do this.

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ramius345@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I’ve done similar things with ssh pipe tunneling and dd. Should really do it while the root is ro, but in a pinch this will mostly be ok on a quiet machine.

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irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I’ve never had an Oracle Cloud server. However, I do image backups of the server once a month, then test them in a VM, After hearing so much about Borg, I finally pulled the trigger and ran it from the cli for a while. Then I deployed Borg UI, and that’s pretty amazing. I used to use Duplicati, but while Duplicati seems great at making backups, it’s not so keen about doing restores. At least, that’s my experience.

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fightforlife@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I only use this really to get a free public ipv4. (Since not all clients support ipv6 only) Is there any other free/better way to get an ipv4?

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AbidanYre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
What changes are they making to always free?

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- slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Cut the free SKU in half.
  
  terminalbytes.com/oracle-cloud-free-tier-changes-…
  
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gajahmada@awful.systems ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Way over my head for filthy casual like me, but I get the gist.

I also have OCI instance (it just run wireguard), so what is the proper way of doing this?

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- german@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Not sure, I would guess paying Oracle for another instance, attaching the target boot drive as a separate one to it and backing it up non-live, and to a better storage provider than NFS over Tailscale.
  
  Or someone also said their custom images thing has a download option. That also needs payment.
  
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frongt@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Yeah that’s a reasonable way to take a backup. I mean I would have recommended an actual backup tool, but dd is perfectly good. Especially since you zeroed as much as you can, since you didn’t have a tool skipping unused blocks.

But the Wi-Fi bit was pretty gross, yeah. Fine to test but never ever for something I actually wanted to use.

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