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We now have automated daily secure remote backups (self.meta)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by gabe to c/meta

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I was taking backups daily and encrypting them myself (yeah....) but thanks to @Arthur we got it automated now. It seems to work, but we are gonna test a restore in a controlled environment just to be sure soon.

Also, sorry for being a bit dead since this weekend. Have had to disengage for my own well-being a bit due to the giant uptick in antisemitism and horrific violent content being posted without any warnings whatsoever pretty much across everywhere online right now.

I'm here, checking reports and stuff. I'm also here and my DMs are always open for any questions or concerns.

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[–] Arthur 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So for transparency sake for the backups we are using dockerized restic with a script that dumps the database and encrypts and uploads to backblaze b2 for us automatically at 5am UTC.

I have it configured currently to

Keep the last snapshot.
Keep the last 7 daily snapshots.
Keep the last 4 weekly snapshots.
Keep the last 3 monthly snapshots.
Keep the last yearly snapshot.

So we have a nice range of restore points if needed.

[–] UdeRecife 3 points 1 year ago

Thank you for setting that auto-backup, and for letting us know about it. ♥️