Best backup for VPS + nas

[Keith Smith]

I second AWS S3.  I use it and it is very cheap.



On 2016-10-24 14:55, Sesso wrote:
> What about just using S3 or you want cheaper?
> 
> jason
> 
>> On Oct 24, 2016, at 2:52 PM, Anon Anon <lokotejones at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Any one have a recommendation for backing up three VPS and a 2tb
>> nas?
>> 
>> Glacier is too expensive for retrieval. Back blaze good?
>> 
>> On Oct 24, 2016 14:20, "Matt Graham" <mhgraham at crow202.org> wrote:
>> 
>> On 2016-10-24 08:58, Carruth, Rusty wrote:
>> NOTE! WARNING! BEWARE!!! DD will almost certainly copy the UUID
>> from
>> the source partition to the destination partition! I do NOT know
>> what
>> havoc will result when linux looks for that UUID and finds 2….
>> (I’d
>> guess it takes the first one it finds
>> 
>> Yes, mount goes through all the block devices probably starting
>> with the first SCSI disk.  If it's looking for a UUID and finds it
>> on /dev/sda3, that's the one it'll use, even if the same UUID is on
>> /dev/sdb1 .  I think.  IIRC, the label detection code in mount did
>> that the last time I looked at it.
>> 
>> (I know about the UUID copy because I do that here at work all the
>> time. In my case, it’s a feature. In your case, it’s a bug)
>> 
>> If you know you want to have the same UUID on 2 filesystems, you
>> can use "dumpe2fs -h /dev/sdNN | grep UUID" , then pass the big hex
>> string to the -U option of mkfs when you're making the new
>> filesystem.  Or the -U option of tune2fs if you've already done mkfs
>> and copied stuff.
>> 
>> IMHO, using filesystem labels is preferable to using UUIDs in
>> /etc/fstab .  Labels can be made short and meaningful to humans,
>> while UUIDs really can't.  (OK, -U
>> feedface-dead-beef-0000-123456789abc works, but is silly.)  Distros
>> probably go the UUID route because it's generally easy to assume
>> that UUIDs are unique, while filesystem labels may not be.
>> 
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