Re:Ask HN: What is your startup's backup policy?
by truebosko on Monday January 05, 2009 @01:11PM
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Source code is on a mix of Github and Subversion servers
Customer data (basically, SQL data) is backed up daily, archived, and put up encrypted on Amazon S3 with the date/time appended to it. The files are tiny so we have no issue with keeping year-old ones there as the costs are minuscule.
All other things like documents, staff related items, pictures of products are stored on a single server, that uses rdiff-backup and sends it to a second drive on the same pc. rdiff-backup is very nice as we've had a few instances where we needed to fetch a file from 2 months ago that was heavily modified since. The version history helps a lot
Customer data (basically, SQL data) is backed up daily, archived, and put up encrypted on Amazon S3 with the date/time appended to it. The files are tiny so we have no issue with keeping year-old ones there as the costs are minuscule.
All other things like documents, staff related items, pictures of products are stored on a single server, that uses rdiff-backup and sends it to a second drive on the same pc. rdiff-backup is very nice as we've had a few instances where we needed to fetch a file from 2 months ago that was heavily modified since. The version history helps a lot