This is a story about how I backed up an entire VPS from a commercial provider that really likes to fuck people over. With a NAS, sheer willpower, and a MacBook

Language warning.

Documented my journey backing up my Oracle Cloud server. With their latest changes to always free, I don’t think my instance will last very long. This isn’t a tutorial, there are probably many much better ways to do this.

  • gajahmada@awful.systemsEnglish
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    11 hours ago

    Way over my head for filthy casual like me, but I get the gist.

    I also have OCI instance (it just run wireguard), so what is the proper way of doing this?

    • German The Jackal@pawb.socialOPEnglish
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      9 hours ago

      Not sure, I would guess paying Oracle for another instance, attaching the target boot drive as a separate one to it and backing it up non-live, and to a better storage provider than NFS over Tailscale.

      Or someone also said their custom images thing has a download option. That also needs payment.