Use Backblaze to backup your images from SFTP storage

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If like me you use external Linux SFTP storage (and like me your obsessed with backups ) it's handy to have a cheap remote backup, after 2 days of head scratching I finally figured it out, and it works perfect, here's how using SSH access.

First install rclone on your Linux VPS by following the instructions here (I use Vultr)
https://rclone.org/install/
The last line in the above instructions is to run "rclone config"

So type n
then give it a name in this example we are using “remote”
select 3 for back blaze

At the prompts add your account id and application key from your Backblaze account
leave endpoint blank
type yes this is ok
q to quit

Now make a new script, replace /srv/users/username/ with the path where you want file stored (choose a non public location)

nano /srv/users/username/rclone-cron.sh

nano will open and copy/past this in to the window

    #!/bin/bash

    if pidof -o %PPID -x "rclone-cron.sh"; then
    exit 1
    fi
    rclone sync /srv/users/username/sftp/public/ remote:bucketname
    exit

/srv/users/username/sftp/public/ will be the path to your images
bucketname is the name of bucket you created in your Backblaze account.

Type ctrl X, then y, then enter to save

now make the file executable

chmod a+x /srv/users/username/rclone-cron.sh

Now put the script in crontab

Type crontab -e

select 2 and nano will open again

copy/past this in to the bottom, this will run the backup hourly

0 * * * * /srv/users/username/rclone-cron.sh >/dev/null 2>&1

examples of scheduling can be found here
https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/scheduling-tasks-with-cron-jobs--net-8800

ctrl X then y then enter to save

all done

if you want to test the script just run

/srv/users/username/rclone-cron.sh

Hopefully someone will find this useful, it really did take 2 days of searching and as I am no Linux pro I have tested 3 times on fresh non production server installs before I used on my working image server, I recommend you do the same just for safety.

 

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I use their GoodSync windows app to autosync my external storage directly to my private storage device at home via sftp. It can autosync at any given interval. I could also rent backup space, but I prefer keeping it close just in case.