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How to backup a linode 360 VPS?

I have a php/vbulletin/apache server running a 360 instance of linode.

I am wondering what is the best way to remote backup the server in another location?

I'm guessing I have two options, FTP and Amazon S3.

Can anyone provide some example hosts and pricing? Your experience with them perhaps?

I don't want to spend too much money on this... I just want to be able to restore the DB at the least in case something is lost.

The MySQL database is 800mb – what I'm not understanding is the total amount of space I need for the backup. If I backup daily for a week it would be 800x7 but then I get confused when a few people told me about "incremental backups"?

What about a script or is it just plain ol' rsync?

Anyway, any advice would be greatly appreciated.

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belongs on serverfault.com – Rubens Farias Jan 30 '10 at 2:00
There was a similar question posted earlier on about a reseller for php and cpanel... – t0mm13b Jan 30 '10 at 2:13
will repost on serverfault then. Thanks. – DFischer Jan 30 '10 at 2:49
(don't want to bump it, but duped if anyone missed it: serverfault.com/questions/107774/how-to-backup-a-linode-360-vps ) – Tobu Feb 4 '10 at 14:33
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Linode runs its own internal managed backup program, which should work great for your needs. Check it out at http://www.linode.com/backups/

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Amazon S3 is great service for backup. Instead of rsync you can use duplicity. With duplicity you can do incremental backups.

For simplifying of backups use DT-S3-Backup.

http://blog.damontimm.com/bash-script-incremental-encrypted-backups-duplicity-amazon-s3/

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S3 with Duplicity is what I use to backup my Linode VPS. – Jeremy Bouse Feb 7 '10 at 17:18
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I agree that you're best served by using the backup service provided by Linode though if you want to do it yourself, Amazon's S3 is really cheap and simple to use.

I've been using it for years with various scripts but recently I started using s3fs to mount my bucket on my Linux box.

http://code.google.com/p/s3fs/wiki/FuseOverAmazon

With it mounted, I can create simple scripts using Bash and rsync to make backups. It also makes retrieving a file really simple as the backup storage is always mounted.

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