Comment by awestroke 2 months ago But then you have to check that these mechanisms work regularly and manually 6 comments awestroke Reply satvikpendem 2 months ago One thing I learned working in the industry, you have to check them when you're using AWS too. awestroke 2 months ago Really? You're saying RDS backups can't be trusted? satvikpendem 2 months ago Trusted in what sense, that they'll always work perfectly 100% of the time? No, therefore one must still check them from time to time, and it's really no different when self hosting, again, if you do it correctly. 2 replies → SoftTalker 2 months ago No backup strategy can be blindly trusted. You must verify it, and also test that restores actually work.
satvikpendem 2 months ago One thing I learned working in the industry, you have to check them when you're using AWS too. awestroke 2 months ago Really? You're saying RDS backups can't be trusted? satvikpendem 2 months ago Trusted in what sense, that they'll always work perfectly 100% of the time? No, therefore one must still check them from time to time, and it's really no different when self hosting, again, if you do it correctly. 2 replies → SoftTalker 2 months ago No backup strategy can be blindly trusted. You must verify it, and also test that restores actually work.
awestroke 2 months ago Really? You're saying RDS backups can't be trusted? satvikpendem 2 months ago Trusted in what sense, that they'll always work perfectly 100% of the time? No, therefore one must still check them from time to time, and it's really no different when self hosting, again, if you do it correctly. 2 replies → SoftTalker 2 months ago No backup strategy can be blindly trusted. You must verify it, and also test that restores actually work.
satvikpendem 2 months ago Trusted in what sense, that they'll always work perfectly 100% of the time? No, therefore one must still check them from time to time, and it's really no different when self hosting, again, if you do it correctly. 2 replies →
SoftTalker 2 months ago No backup strategy can be blindly trusted. You must verify it, and also test that restores actually work.
One thing I learned working in the industry, you have to check them when you're using AWS too.
Really? You're saying RDS backups can't be trusted?
Trusted in what sense, that they'll always work perfectly 100% of the time? No, therefore one must still check them from time to time, and it's really no different when self hosting, again, if you do it correctly.
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No backup strategy can be blindly trusted. You must verify it, and also test that restores actually work.