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Links

• official
  • 2018-01-16 Kicking Off the New Year with New Droplet Plans

Notes

Backup/Restore Images

Backup:

• https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/how-to-backup-droplet-whole-server-to-my-own-storage
  • https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-sshfs-to-mount-remote-file-systems-over-ssh

I got an error with the command they suggested, and modified it to this:

• sudo sshfs -o allow_other root@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:/ /mnt/droplet

root@statler:/mnt# sudo sshfs -o allow_other,defer_permissions root@157.245.133.24:/ /mnt/droplet
fuse: unknown option `defer_permissions'
root@statler:/mnt# sudo sshfs -o allow_other root@157.245.133.24:/ /mnt/droplet

...but then this didn't work:

dd if=/mnt/droplet of=tootcat2.hypertwins.net-1523357095826-abandoned
dd: error reading '/mnt/droplet': Is a directory

• https://opensource.com/article/18/7/how-use-dd-linux

Restore: Possibly the "custom images" feature is the way to go?

• https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/images/custom-images/how-to/upload/