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What's your backup strategy?

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TI

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#51

manishblog said:
JetBackup on my cPanel host
It is host backup that you can download. The difference is whether you automate the download. If you log in monthly and download, that is your own. If you never do, it is host only.

SA

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#52

I automated download with a cron job on my home server. wget the JetBackup file every Sunday. Two locations, good enough for my blog.

TE

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#53

What about databases? Files are easy but mysqldump can lock tables. I use mydumper now, much better for large databases.

HE

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#54

TechLet3 said:
Mydumper
Seconded. Mysqldump on a 30GB database took 4 hours and locked everything. Mydumper parallel, 40 minutes, minimal lock.

HeadRich

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128GB or nothing

#55

I just keep everything in git. Database schema in git, code in git, assets in git-lfs. For the actual data, logical dumps to a git repo that pushes to three remotes. Is this insane? It has never failed me.

ray_takeba

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Ex-Sysadmin

#56

HeadRich said:
Everything in git
Git is not a backup tool. Git is a version control tool. You are one force push away from sadness. Also git does not handle large binaries well no matter what LFS promises.

reykjavik_doc

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container skeptic

#57

I was productive before Kubernetes and I was productive before git-lfs too. Rsnapshot to a local disk, rsync to a remote. Simple. Boring. Works. All this fancy tooling is just resume-driven development for infrastructure.

uma

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99.99% or bust

#58

reykjavik_doc said:
All this fancy tooling
I use fancy tooling because I have 47 servers and no time to log into each one. Restic runs from a systemd timer, reports to prometheus, I see it all on a dashboard. The graphs do not lie.

436 days. reboot is surrender.

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