Hello, I’m currently using a 30GB server, but I’ve decided to move to a 100GB server. I’m just frightened of transferring because of dataloss. I have a fediverse instance, and that is truly what freaks me out.
I realized I could buy another server and leave the fediverse server alone, but I just want to go ahead and transfer it and ignore my fears T_T but I have a while to figure it out so I’m not in a rush or anything.
There’s two designated sers on my original VPS- the owner of the fediverse server and me (admin). I’m not sure how that affects transferring.
Rsync is really good, it does do integrity checking (by comparing checksums per-file) and gracefully resumes an interrupted transfer so you should be fine! Just be sure to check it finished successfully and run the exact same command from the same location again if not.
If you want to be extra safe, once it’s done transferring you can run it again anyway with the --ignore-times flag, which forces it to re-checksum all the files on the destination.
Another option is if your VPS provider has a snapshot feature, often you can take a snapshot of a VPS and then create a new, bigger VPS using that snapshot. You could also just use this to back things up in case you find out weeks later that the new server didn’t transfer everything correctly.
Unfortunately my VPS doesn’t provide a snapshot feature or anything like that haha, but luckily I pay annually so even if things don’t transfer, I’ll have a while to figure it out (since I last paid for it in March cx)
