Ask HN: Now that Backupsheep died, how do you do backup a Linux server?

5 points·guilamu··7 comments

I've been using Backupsheep for a long time before they closed shop a few weeks ago. It was incredibly reliable for database + files backups on all my servers and had a very good admin GUI.

I think my best bet now would be Urbackup + Percona XtraBackup for the database. What do you think? Any advice or better solution?

Thanks!

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Simon here, founder of SnapShooter which sold to DigitalOcean this year.

Bilal made a good product with BackupSheep, it was released about a month after DigitalOcean. It's sad that he has shut it down.

We would be more than happy to help you get setup on SnapShooter, most of the features from Backup Sheep translate to SnapShooter

Hello Simon, thanks for your reply, I'll look into SnapShooter. Is there any way I can contact you directly?

If you need support support@snapshooter.com is great

But if you have a more direct question my work email is Simon at DigitalOcean.com

I helped one of my clients swap from their "bespoke" solution (dodgy bash scripts and an S3 bucket) to Snapshooter which made our lives a lot easier. Looking at Backupsheep's website it seems like it is very similar to Snapshooter, so I think that would be your best replacement.

Thanks, I'll look into Snapshooter.

I've never used it personnaly but you can take a look at duplicati (9,5k stars on github), it seems to have a nice GUI too

Thanks for the tip, I'll look into it.

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