Re:Ask HN: What is your startup's backup policy?
by jbyers on Sunday January 04, 2009 @05:27PM
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MySQL: replication across VPN to server in a different state. Week's worth of daily full backups (innobackup), compressed, encrypted, periodically sent to S3. As much binlog history as we have disk to keep.
MogileFS: real-time encrypted backup to S3 (in addition to multiple local copies). This covers all of our blob-like data, keeps MySQL relatively small.
Systems: logs nightly synced to S3, otherwise no data to back up. One puppet script away from reconstruction.
Email: local server rsync in addition to procmail failsafe copies.
Code: svn master encrypted and sent to S3 nightly.
MogileFS: real-time encrypted backup to S3 (in addition to multiple local copies). This covers all of our blob-like data, keeps MySQL relatively small.
Systems: logs nightly synced to S3, otherwise no data to back up. One puppet script away from reconstruction.
Email: local server rsync in addition to procmail failsafe copies.
Code: svn master encrypted and sent to S3 nightly.
We use boto to access Amazon services.