Comment by marcinzm

2 years ago

And that works right until you get to publish an incident report like this:

https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2017/02/01/gitlab-dot-com-data...

> Our backups to S3 apparently don’t work either: the bucket is empty

It took them a data loss incident to find this out? This is just one of the many red flags mentioned in the article, IMO this incident isn't about relying on cloud backups vs self managing it

  • Yeah. Testing your backup works can be almost as much work as setting the thing up in the first place, too, but you do need to do it