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How I backed up and booted locally my entire VPS (igerman.cc)

submitted 22 hours ago by german@pawb.social to c/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 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

I've done similar things with ssh pipe tunneling and dd ala:

,,, dd if=/dev/sda | ssh user@host "dd of=/some/other/file/or/disk" ,,,

Should really do it while the root is ro, but in a pinch this will mostly be ok on a quiet machine.

You might be able to run rsync afterwards to spot check if you are paranoid.

If you didn't need block level I would have suggested just using rsync or rclone.