| ▲ | jayd16 7 hours ago |
| Hmm backups seems like an important one. |
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| ▲ | andersmurphy 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Litestream [1] is quick to set up and has point in time backup to the second. - [1] https://litestream.io |
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| ▲ | cj 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| “Guys, we need to postpone our beta launch! We need another week to implement a backup strategy with point in time recovery!” You don’t need backups until you have customers. |
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| ▲ | jayd16 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | So go live without testing the backup in the beta at all? | | |
| ▲ | cj 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | Yes! Why build a backup process before you know you have data worth backing up. | | |
| ▲ | tremon 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | The data recovery process needs to be validated too, preferably before customer data actually needs to be recovered. | |
| ▲ | jayd16 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Why go live if you don't have a reasonable expectation of users? Worrying about HA when you don't have customers that need it is one thing, but I wouldn't want to be in a place where I have to put a banner on the website asking users to please make a new account because we had an oopsie. | | |
| ▲ | bombcar 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | To be fair, there's a big difference between "we do periodic backups" and "we can restore to any millisecond since product launch. | | |
| ▲ | jayd16 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Sure, but it seemed to be that any backups at all were being called too frivolous. |
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| ▲ | mamcx 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Yes, and is super easy. I do like this: cron to run the backup and then rsync to https://www.rsync.net, then an after script that check it was run and post to my telegram the analysis. That is. |
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| ▲ | Scaled 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | Another good option is Restic, since snapshots let you go back in time. That is useful in case you accidentally delete/break something and you're not quite fast enough to restore from backup before the next cron runs. |
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| ▲ | McGlockenshire 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| And also incredibly trivial to fix. Most VPS providers include their own backup services, and for the rest there's rsnapshot and some other cheaper VPS somewhere else to keep it "off site." Too many have forgotten what it means to administrate a single system. You can do a lot with very simple tooling. |
