Hi, I have my own server and I am hosting a lot of stuff like my portfolio, this blog, a music player and a lot of other things. Even if I started my server like a year ago, I'm starting to document it since I heard that it is a good practice to embrace creativity and it can be useful for your curriculum sooo, I'm here documenting it starting from now!
The Setup
Web proxyed by Cloudflare so Cloudflare tunnel to ssh access it was needed
Two main components live in my server:
- 1. Apache Web Server in order to host my Portfolio Website
- 2. OpenVPN, yes I am also using this server as a personal VPN -which proved to be useful in my adventures outside Italy-
- Planning to instantiate an Email Server when the server proves to be stable and reliable
"The real challenge wasn't just making it work, but making it also reliable and resilient."
Problem found: The server crashes when trying to transmit very big files in a remote location
So yeah, I am trying to send a file like 2.8 GB from my server to my personal PC. (It is a backup of the whole server since I realized that I haven't done it and it is not a good practice) so I created a copy of / excluding dynamic system folders that are populated at boot,
using: sudo tar -cpzf ./backup.tar.gz --exclude="$PWD/backup.tar.gz" --exclude=/proc --exclude=/tmp --exclude=/mnt --exclude=/dev --exclude=/sys --exclude=/run --exclude=/media --exclude=/lost+found / , so I can restore it with sudo tar -xvpzf /path/to/backup.tar.gz -C /
then I compressed it and then tried to send it via scp but it crashed, then tried with rsync but it crashed again.