I wrote earlier about how to backup a small SQLite database.

That solution works well for small databases, but can become impractical for larger databases. In particular if the machine with the database has not enough disk space for another copy of it, and you want to backup to another machine.

One option is to use sqlite3_rsync, but I could not get that to work, it kept running out of memory. So I found another way, dump the database to text and gzip it. Combined with ssh, you can make a backup to a remote machine without storing anything extra on disk on the database machine. Run this on the machine where you want to have the backup: