Be Your Own Cloud code · PART 5 — GOING FURTHER

Chapter 26 Scaling Out: Multiple Machines and Off-Site Nodes

1 block · p. 120 in the paperback

The Simple Version: Two Independent Machines

# p. 120

Run Terminal, on the server

# On the off-site machine, an independent Restic repository that
# both machines can push to, giving you geographic redundancy
# without either machine depending on the other to function:

export RESTIC_REPOSITORY=sftp:user@offsite-machine:/backups/primary
restic backup /opt/stacks --exclude-caches

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