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 but I have a lot of space on my home server.
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Backup VPS to home server
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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.
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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 for others to connect to. Also yes, I am renting an unmanaged VPS.rustydusty1717 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 10, 2025 3:53 pm 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.
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.)
Re: Backup VPS to home server
So in a pull configuration? I was thinking about that, but rsync has no versioning so if I make a bad pull then all of my backups will be messed up...
Re: Backup VPS to home server
That does seem good, but unfortunately the OS I use doesn't support that.Edge100x wrote: ↑Thu Jul 10, 2025 9:18 pm I usually recommend rsnapshot for a good snapshot solution using rsync:
https://rsnapshot.org/
Re: Backup VPS to home server
What OS are you using?