How does /g/ back up their VPS? I was thinking of rsyncing the

>>59900820
Or, fuck.
I could just get away with backing up /var/ and /etc/, along with a list of installed programs

Ask your VPS provider to backup it for you.

>>59901067
They want to charge me extra money for that

I don't

what are my options if I want to take a snapshot of software installed / configuration setting on the VPS? Are there any solutions where I could automate the setup of VPS? I know, that I can take an entire image of OS with all the things setup, but I want something lighter. Is docker the only way?

Borg backup

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Full_system_backup_with_rsync

>>59900820
Why would I back it up?

>>59900820
on VPS cron doing encrypted backup of all configs and user data to yandex disk

another script on my desktop pc downloading and decrypting backups from yandex disk to my local pc

and fabric script to auto deploy on new VPS from said backups