Quick comment on best method for doing a total manual backup/clone of a VM and moving it to another (whether other provider, downsizing, upsizing, etc.)?
a link or a couple of words would be great -- might save hours.
a link or a couple of words would be great -- might save hours.
For low load systems, just using rsync/Borg by itself may be enough. The advantage of Borg is incremental, deduplicated backups.
I personally use borgmatic (which is a wrapper over Borg, that is nicer to configure). It comes with a fairly decent starting config: https://torsion.org/borgmatic/docs/how-to/set-up-backups/
sudo rsync -aAXv --exclude-from=exclude-list.txt --delete --numeric-ids --rsync-path="sudo rsync" / user
(the exclude list is just /dev /proc /sys /tmp /run /mnt /media /lost+found).
At a certain point you start to wonder if saving the 50 bucks a month is even worth it....
Thanks for explaining this though - really appreciate it.