I'm thinking about moving my Windows Synchronet install to a Linux VPS; I'm assuming some people are running Synchronet on a VPS, and I was wondering what you do for backup?

I'd like to back up to my Windows desktop at home; my /sbbs/ folder with files and messages is about 7 gigs.

The last time I did this, the only game in town was rsync under cygwin on a Windows host and rsync running natively on the Linux VPS.

Is there any better solution out there people know of?

Thanks!

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Re: Backing up a Synchro VPS?
By: poindexter FORTRAN to All on Sun Jan 20 2019 08:08 am

I'm thinking about moving my Windows Synchronet install to a Linux VPS; I'm assuming some people are running Synchronet on a VPS, and I was wondering what you do for backup?

I run mine under Linode, and linode does nightly snapshots of the entire disk (for a small fee).

I'd like to back up to my Windows desktop at home; my /sbbs/ folder with files and messages is about 7 gigs.

The last time I did this, the only game in town was rsync under cygwin on a Windows host and rsync running natively on the Linux VPS.

Is there any better solution out there people know of?

While rsync isn't the only game in town, it's probably still the best and easiest option.

I'd definitely suggest keeping regular archives, though. Prior to the current incarnation of my BBS, I had a drive fail in the middle of a backup corrupting the backup and I lost everything.

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Re: Backing up a Synchro VPS?
By: DaiTengu to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun Jan 20 2019 12:21:30

If you are on linux then i have a backup script that keeps the last five backups. And i can second the value of the Linode backup service...

Would be happy to set up linx sbbs hosting for you ;)

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Re: Backing up a Synchro VPS?
By: poindexter FORTRAN to All on Sun Jan 20 2019 08:08 am

I'm thinking about moving my Windows Synchronet install to a Linux VPS; I'm assuming some people are running Synchronet on a VPS, and I was wondering what you do for backup?

I'd like to back up to my Windows desktop at home; my /sbbs/ folder with files and messages is about 7 gigs.

The last time I did this, the only game in town was rsync under cygwin on a Windows host and rsync running natively on the Linux VPS.

Is there any better solution out there people know of?

i just write a script where it rars the bbs up and then send it to me via ftp.

why is your sbbs dir 7 gigs. do you have some junk files in there from doorgames? i know ambrosia can make some huge files.
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Re: Backing up a Synchro VPS?
By: MRO to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Jan 21 2019 12:22 am

why is your sbbs dir 7 gigs. do you have some junk files in there from doorgames? i know ambrosia can make some huge files.

filez, man -- filez. And lots of messages.

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Re: Backing up a Synchro VPS?
By: poindexter FORTRAN to MRO on Mon Jan 21 2019 10:51 am

Re: Backing up a Synchro VPS?
By: MRO to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Jan 21 2019 12:22 am

why is your sbbs dir 7 gigs. do you have some junk files in there from doorgames? i know ambrosia can make some huge files.

filez, man -- filez. And lots of messages.

oh, you nest your file areas in your sbbs dir? i keep it separate because i like to backup my bbs a lot and i have a lot of files.
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Re: Backing up a Synchro VPS?
By: MRO to poindexter FORTRAN on Tue Jan 22 2019 04:14 pm

oh, you nest your file areas in your sbbs dir? i keep it separate because i like to backup my bbs a lot and i have a lot of files.

Not a bad idea, separating them out.

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poindexter wrote:

I'm thinking about moving my Windows Synchronet install to a Linux VPS; I'm assuming some people are running Synchronet on a VPS, and I was wondering what
you do for backup?

I'd like to back up to my Windows desktop at home; my /sbbs/ folder with files
and messages is about 7 gigs.

The last time I did this, the only game in town was rsync under cygwin on a Windows host and rsync running natively on the Linux VPS.

Is there any better solution out there people know of?

Look at burp backup, what it is based on rsync, it's a full backup solution. The client runs on Windows and Linnux and the server runs on Linux only.
It's fast, includes deduplication so those big files that are the same
aren't backed up multiple times. You can configure how many backups you want
to keep (like 12 monthly, 4 weeks, 7 daily). It can even backup to itself so you can have local copies of files in case you screw up editing one or
delete one accidentally, you can quickly get it back without remembering you need to make a copy first. It's open source and free but donations are
accepted by the author. I usually donate when I screw up back and it saves
my ass...which has been a couple of times.

https://burp.grke.org/

I use it for a nightly sbbs backup.

[root@brandy bbs.endofthelinebbs.com]# du -sh *
6.6G 0000099 2019-01-16 22:43:06 +0100
349M 0000113 2019-01-31 11:43:04 +0100
275M 0000120 2019-02-07 17:43:03 +0100
9.4M 0000125 2019-02-13 07:43:03 +0100
8.8M 0000126 2019-02-14 08:43:03 +0100
208M 0000127 2019-02-15 09:43:03 +0100
9.9M 0000128 2019-02-16 10:43:03 +0100
58M 0000129 2019-02-17 11:43:06 +0100
9.9M 0000130 2019-02-18 12:43:05 +0100
290M 0000131 2019-02-19 13:43:04 +0100

As you can see my original backup is big, but very little changes so the
deltas are small in comparison.

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poindexter wrote:

I'm thinking about moving my Windows Synchronet install to a Linux VPS; I'm assuming some people are running Synchronet on a VPS, and I was wondering what
you do for backup?

I'd like to back up to my Windows desktop at home; my /sbbs/ folder with files
and messages is about 7 gigs.

The last time I did this, the only game in town was rsync under cygwin on a Windows host and rsync running natively on the Linux VPS.

Is there any better solution out there people know of?

I forgot to add, you can get a very cheap VPS of you look at lowendbox.com
and I'd consider one in a different country or even continent. That way if
you get nuked...your data is safe :)

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