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Asked: 2011-09-11 23:37:08 +0800 CST

Backing up on a second vps?

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My hosting provider does not offer a free backup and I'm not going to pay for it.

I have 2 centos 5 64 bit vps, I'm working on 1 of them, I'm not using the 2nd one. I don't have a cpanel nor ftp.

I would like to know how to backup everything on the 2nd vps that I don't use

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  1. Best Answer

    SCP or SFTP are your friends in this scenario.

    The scp command works similarly to cp, but it copies files over an ssh connection.

    eli@oldserver:~$ scp -r /folder/with/important/stuff/ [email protected]:/home/eli/stuff

    For more information and flags I refer you to the man page of scp.

    Your other option, SFTP is a protocol that is implemented in many file browsers. This approach will allow you to use a graphical interface.

    • File browsers like Nautilus and Dolphin on desktop Linux distributions have this built in. Just use sftp://[email protected] in the address bar.
    • On Windows there is WinSCP.
    • For OSX there is Fugu.

    These SFTP tools will allow you to just drag and drop files on or off servers running ssh.

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  2. Just copy all the data and config to the second server. Testing whether your backup actually works is optional, but highly recommended.

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