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Discussion in 'Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosting' started by dgd132, Sep 22, 2018.

  1. dgd132

    dgd132 New Member

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    I've not used any other comparable services, but very happy so far with my upcloud server.


    My only concern so far is backup. Upcloud has good facilities to backup and restore at upcloud, but I'd be more comfortable if I also had a backup somewhere else.

    I'm very new to all this so possibly I am misunderstanding what I think I need?

    If I have were to have an offsite copy of my upcloud disk should it be a straightforward matter to restore it elsewhere? Or is it only every useful at upcloud? ie are offsite backups of a server useful? or not?
     
  2. Sunka

    Sunka Well-Known Member

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    Useful, but only on that server, generally speaking.
     
  3. dgd132

    dgd132 New Member

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    um. sorry, you've lost me. an offiste backup is by definition on a different server surely?
     
  4. eva2000

    eva2000 Administrator Staff Member

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    always useful to have especially if you transfer offsite to say Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage like places which have high availability/uptime
     
  5. Mrbo

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    Arent automatic daily backups taken by the VPS company enough? Or whats the difference / pros?
     
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    Not being dependent on the VPS provider.