Re:Major AWS Outage Happening
by cdelsolar on Monday October 20, 2025 @07:14AM
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If youre not Netflix then just sudo yum install postgresql and pg_dump every day, upload to S3. Has worked for me for 20 years at various companies, side projects, startups …
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What happens when the server goes down ? How do you update it ?
you stand up another db server and load the last good dump into it i suppose
> If youre not Netflix then just sudo yum install postgresql and pg_dump every day, upload to S3.
database services such as DynamoDB support a few backup strategies out of the box, including continuous backups. You just need to flips switch and never bother about it again.
> Has worked for me for 20 years at various companies, side projects, startups …
That's perfectly fine. There are still developers who don't even use version control at all. Some old habits die hard, even when the whole world moved on.