This can be set up really easy, just click the Auto button at the upper right corner. However, you eventually want all this to happen automatically. You can now click the button ‘Sync’ to copy all the files from the left side to the right side. GoodSync shows a list of all the files in our Digital Ocean Spaces and if they are already available in the destination. It can take a while if you have a lot of files, but eventually you’ll get the list. On the GoodSync dashboard, just click the Analyze button. It will also show you if the files have already been backed-up to the destination. It’s a good idea to let GoodSync analyze all the files in your Digital Ocean spaces just to confirm everything is working. Once you’ve selected a destination, the job is ready and can start protecting your Digital Ocean Spaces. This can be a folder on your computer or even a different cloud destination (like Google Drive, Dropbox or Backblaze). Click the right side (destination) and choose where the files should be stored. Now the left side of the backup is complete.
Select the folder that you want to backup (you can select multiple folders) and proceed. You’ll get a list of all the folders in your Digital Ocean Spaces. The URL is the endpoint of your Digital Ocean Space. The URL is actually the endpoint of your Digital Ocean Space, like or. Now the only thing left to provide is the URL. Give the keypair a recognizable name and copy both the Access Key and Private Key to GoodSync. Scroll down to Spaces Access Keys and click Generate New Key in the upper right corner.
You’ll notice we have to provide an Access Key and Secret Access Key. A new window will open showing all the possible sources. The left side will of course be Digital Ocean Spaces while the right side will be a location on our hard drive or another cloud destination (there are a lot of possibilities with GoodSync). Now we have to choose a left side (source) and right side (destination) for our backup. You could actually use Digital Ocean Spaces as an alternative to Dropbox, but chances are pretty small that you want to do that (as it’s just not made for this use case).
You can now choose if you just want backup (one-way) or synchronization (two-way).
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Once you buy GoodSync (the free version can only backup/sync 100 files) and set it up, you just open the application and click “New Job”. It’s also great for people who want more advanced setups, like backing up Digital Ocean Spaces every hour to their Google Drive, keeping deleted files 30 days in a bin and keeping multiple versions of files. Goodsync is a great solution for people like them. However, some people are not really comfortable with this approach and prefer to use a GUI. If you’re familiar with writing scripts, you could easily write a cron job that backups all your files in Digital Ocean Spaces. Since Digital Ocean Spaces uses the S3-protocol, it’s luckily quite easy to set up your own back-up. I even read a Reddit post about someone who lost all his data while using Digital Ocean Spaces, so these things happen and you should prepare for it. Digital Ocean doesn’t back-up your Digital Ocean Spaces, they trust that you know your way around cloud computing and that you have your own back-ups. No problem right, just have to get the back-ups from Digital Ocea.oh, they don’t exist.
Imagine that you write a script with a fatal error (I know you don’t make errors, but just imagine) that actually deletes files from your Digital Oceans Spaces container. The opposite is true as well, you can’t trust yourself that you will not mess things up. The thing is, relying on third parties is always a bad thing, you should only rely on yourself. When you’re using a cloud storage service like Digital Ocean Spaces, you rely on Digital Ocean that your files are safe. My files are safe in Digital Ocean Spaces, right? It’s clear that I need to have backups of my Digital Ocean Spaces and you should too. Since I’m using Digital Ocean for the delivery of web assets for multiple websites, this data is very crucial and losing the files would be disastrous. I’m also very paranoid when it comes to backing up data. I’m a huge fan of Digital Ocean and love using their products.
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