One of these days I’ll try NixOS, as a lot of people love it, and it’s designed for precisely this use-case: to have a reproducible environment described by configuration kept in a repository. A setup.sh script that configures a server from scratch.Scripts that need to execute periodically via cron.d.I have a personal GitHub repository where I store the server’s configuration. On my server, I use the latest LTS of Ubuntu Linux, since it’s what I’ve grown accustomed to. Test how reliable recovery is every time you update your server to a major Linux distribution version.Backup your data via cron jobs, with the help of rclone.Place all your server configuration in a personal git repository.Here’s how to backup your data safely, and with no extra costs… Who knows.Cloud hosting services like Linode or DigitalOcean offer backup services for your VPS. In fact, it might be better to just get the personal backup option in case there are things that I need to download individually instead of getting a full restore with the B2 Cloud.

It would be cheaper for me to get that instead of B2 Cloud Storage after the total size of my stuff exceeds 1TB. The personal backup option doesn’t have a limit to how much data can be uploaded, and you get free downloads. It looks like they have a “personal backup” thing for $5/month ( ), which is the same price as Amazon Drive.

Backblaze looks like a pretty good application to use, but I had a question. I used to use Amazon Drive, but now that they banned rclone I’m going to be looking for something different. I use it to back up photos and other important documents. I’ve got an Ubuntu Server computer running with 3TB of RAID storage.

Rclone backblaze