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by Ta4our
Tue Jul 15, 2025 10:33 pm
Forum: Dedicated servers and Virtual Dedicated Servers
Topic: Backup VPS to home server
Replies: 9
Views: 122

Re: Backup VPS to home server

Edge100x wrote: Mon Jul 14, 2025 9:44 am What OS are you using?
I'm running TrueNAS Scale at home.

Kind of a question out of left field, but if I pay for your webhosting service, could I back up the VPS to there?
by Ta4our
Mon Jul 14, 2025 8:05 am
Forum: Dedicated servers and Virtual Dedicated Servers
Topic: Backup VPS to home server
Replies: 9
Views: 122

Re: Backup VPS to home server

Edge100x wrote: Thu Jul 10, 2025 9:18 pm I usually recommend rsnapshot for a good snapshot solution using rsync:

https://rsnapshot.org/
That does seem good, but unfortunately the OS I use doesn't support that.
by Ta4our
Thu Jul 10, 2025 6:54 pm
Forum: Dedicated servers and Virtual Dedicated Servers
Topic: Backup VPS to home server
Replies: 9
Views: 122

Re: Backup VPS to home server

If your home server runs Linux, it would be easiest to have it connect to the server here and simply copy things over with rsync. (You could also likely do that with Windows, using the Windows version, but I haven't experimented with it.) So in a pull configuration? I was thinking about that, but r...
by Ta4our
Thu Jul 10, 2025 4:13 pm
Forum: Dedicated servers and Virtual Dedicated Servers
Topic: Backup VPS to home server
Replies: 9
Views: 122

Re: Backup VPS to home server

If its unmanaged you should be able to setup a site to site style VPN. If its managed I dont think there's any secure way. If I do that wouldn't that mean the VPS would be constantly connected to the VPN server? I need only the backups to be sent securely. I still want the VPS to run game servers f...
by Ta4our
Thu Jul 10, 2025 1:50 pm
Forum: Dedicated servers and Virtual Dedicated Servers
Topic: Backup VPS to home server
Replies: 9
Views: 122

Backup VPS to home server

Hi, I was wondering what I would need to do in order to establish an SFTP link between my home server and the VPS. Would I need to allow an incoming connection from the VPS IP on my home firewall? Also what would be the most secure way to do this? I know cloud backups would be easier and more secure...