I have been using a VPS for a while to host some personal projects and services that I have been using. Lately I have start to think to move all my git projects into it aswell. But at the moment, I’m not really sure how to go about off site backups of the data. How do you usually go about running backups on your servers?
You can use a few tools.
RSync
Rclone - probably want this one over RSync though.
Tarsnap
Duplicati
Restic
There’s obviously a lot more, but these are some of the more popular ones.
Now you need a way to back it up. Probably the best way is to tar it up first and then dump that file. You can also get something like deadmans snitch to ensure backups don’t break.
As you mentioned, if this is just source code, then the best thing would be to create source control and have it set up that way. Then you automate it and deploy the code when you make updates and have a history of changes.
It sounds like tarsnap is your best bet though. It will be the cheapest.
You can also backup to another storage provider like Google, Dropbox, or even AWS s3. S3 can get costly, but you can archive everything to the glacier tier which is pretty cheap.
Thank you for the suggestions, I have been planning on moving my git repositories out of GitHub, into something like gitea. You gave me a good starting point to research the available options.
If you don’t want to use a hosted provider, you can at least just start using git. Just do git init. Then you can start commiting changes. This way, you at least have a history of changes. Then just back that folder up like normal