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

submitted 2 days 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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[–] frongt@lemmy.zip -1 points 2 days 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.