How to Automatically Backup a Linux VPS to a Separate Cloud Storage Service

Long story short: DigitalOcean’s automated abuse system flagged the startup’s account after they spun up about ten powerful droplets for some CPU-intensive jobs and deleted them shortly after — which is literally the biggest selling point of a “servers by the hour” company like DigitalOcean, by the way — and, after replying to the support ticket, an unsympathetic customer support agent declined to reactivate the account without explanation. Writing steps to create an S3 bucket would be incredibly redundant, so here are Amazon’s writeups on creating one (make sure the bucket is fully private; the other default settings are fine) as well as grabbing your account’s “access keys” which will be used to authenticate Restic with S3. Right-click and copy the direct URL for that file and head over to your server’s command line to download it into your home directory:

Next, we’ll unzip the download in place:

This should leave us with a single file: the Restic binary.

Source: jarv.is