How I backed up and booted locally my entire VPS (igerman.cc)
from german@pawb.social to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 02 Jul 17:25
https://pawb.social/post/46566296

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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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frongt@lemmy.zip on 02 Jul 17:47 next collapse

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.

TheHolm@aussie.zone on 02 Jul 18:00 next collapse

nfs over the internet is usually bad idea. Network delays is killer for NFS. You can use ssh instead. And add some mbuff for better results.

AbidanYre@lemmy.world on 02 Jul 18:26 collapse

What changes are they making to always free?