How do you backup your websites?

2 points by brockf 15y ago ↗ HN

I am looking to improve my company's website backup architecture to gain some comfort in knowing that my files/databases, etc. are safe in the event of hard drive failures, datacenter fires, etc.

I am a developer and I know I can develop a fairly decent system from scratch but I'd much not rather re-invent the wheel on a problem that every single one of us who rely on servers has had to solve.

So, what do you guys use for backup solutions? Custom or another company's product?

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cperciva 15y ago ↗

I use Tarsnap to backup the Tarsnap website. :-)

byoung2 15y ago ↗

At work we use NetApp. It does hourly incremental and nightly full backups. The backups are replicated across 2 datacenters. It's pretty expensive, but it's the only sane way of managing backups for 200+ sites across too many servers to count.