Backing Up My VPS With Rsync. What To Backup And Best Practices?

In: Technical And Security Issues

9 Feb 2010
I’m just getting to grips with my first VPS and enjoying the challenge!

I have 20Gb of Rsync backup space from the host with an internal IP and have just setup my SSH key and managed to sucessfully backup the /home/ directory.

Realising that this will not be including MySQL databases I have found the script Auto Mysql Backup and set it to backup to within the /home/ directory.

So now I was going to setup cron jobs to do this daily.

What other directories should I backup for settings etc – Another post mentioned the etc/ directory?

Also is this sufficient for backing up? I’m guessing I should be backing up to a 3rd location also?

Muchos gracias!

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