I’ve returned after taking into consideration everyone’s advice on what I should do with my basic VPS and…listened to none of it for reasons. Well, I had a good reason. I wanted to diversify my internet consumption with all this Reddit API mess and have gone back in part to RSS. In that vein I have stood up Minflux and Wallabag on said VPS. Both are excellent if you need a RSS and a read it later app. And they can tightly integrate with one another which is rad.
So now that I’ve got it set up the way I want, what is the recommended method for backing it up in case of failure/data loss? It’s running Ubuntu 20.04, if that helps. I have Google drive space as well as Backblaze B2 I could leverage. I just need to know which direction to look for solutions. VPS is rented through Racknerd and I confirmed they don’t have snapshot function unfortunately.
I use BorgBackup over ssh to rsync.net, then run rclone to sync the backup to Backblaze B2. Rsync.net allows you to run rclone on their server, so there is no inefficient extra step of downloading the backup and then uploading to B2. I also use Healthchecks.io to monitor the backups, which are run daily. You could try restic instead, as Borg doesn’t support backing up directly to B2 (only local and ssh).