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Log to your DigitalOcean droplet by typing: ssh Note that if you don’t mind syncing your personal Hive on your DigitalOcean droplet, you can leave the option enabled.

Still on your local workstation, go to your SpiderOak preferences: For this reason, we should disable the Hive Folder syncing. You put something personal in your Hive on your local computer and oops, it will be sent to your droplet! That sounds not very good to me. One problem of using the Hive for our backups is that it will sync everything. It is a convenient way to have things running quickly without configuring shared folders manually. All files added to the Hive folder of a device are automatically synced to the Hive folder in every other devices. SpiderOak creates the SpiderOak Hive folder in the installation process.

You can leave the default options for now: Next step is to register your local computer with SpiderOak.įinally, you will be presented a screen to select what you want to sync from your local computer to the cloud. You should be presented with the following screen: Then, choose the correct client for your distribution: On the SpiderOak page, click on downloads

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We will first install the client on our local workstation and create our account. Thanks to NoName in the comments for asking me to clarify this point. After that, the cost is $7 per month for 30 GB storage.

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UPDATE: Whilst SpiderOak is not free, they offer a 60-days free trial for 2GB storage (no credit card required). Their zero-knowledge architecture will make sure our data remains private. We will use SpiderOak to store our backups. It’s not a question of not having enough money to pay someone else, it’s because we are smart and resourceful! See, it already feels better when we see it in this light! We are freelancers (or small development teams) and we are used to get our hands dirty and do stuff by ourselves. Sure, you can enable weekly backups of your whole droplet on DigitalOcean (the cost is minimal), but for a database it is wiser to backup at least once a day. If you haven’t read the first part, you should do it before reading any further.

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You can also sync directories belonging to the same computer.Now that we know how to setup a rails application using Dokku on a DigitalOcean droplet, it might be a good time to think about automating our database backups. Thus you'll only be able to select and sync the directories you've already configured with each installation of the program. Its job is to sync directories between several computers with SpiderOak installed. The file synching system works differently. The program will then take care of uploading the files to the online storage drive and managing all the changes in files and directories that were backed up previously. Just select which directories you want to safeguard. Once you've set up your account, you can access the program's different services via the interface: backup copy, cloud preview, transfer status, shared file preview, and directory synchronization. To start using SpiderOak, you must have a user account, which you can create when you install the program and then verify via email. In fact, more and more variants of this type of service are appearing with improvements like directory synchronization and file sharing.Ī very good example is SpiderOak, which in addition to offering the possibility of backing up your files to an online hard drive also lets you sync directories between several computers and share files in the cloud. It's increasingly common for users to keep a backup of files in an online storage drive somewhere.