← Back to context Comment by awestroke 4 days ago But then you have to check that these mechanisms work regularly and manually 6 comments awestroke Reply satvikpendem 4 days ago One thing I learned working in the industry, you have to check them when you're using AWS too. awestroke 4 days ago Really? You're saying RDS backups can't be trusted? satvikpendem 4 days 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 4 days ago No backup strategy can be blindly trusted. You must verify it, and also test that restores actually work.
satvikpendem 4 days ago One thing I learned working in the industry, you have to check them when you're using AWS too. awestroke 4 days ago Really? You're saying RDS backups can't be trusted? satvikpendem 4 days 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 4 days ago No backup strategy can be blindly trusted. You must verify it, and also test that restores actually work.
awestroke 4 days ago Really? You're saying RDS backups can't be trusted? satvikpendem 4 days 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 4 days ago No backup strategy can be blindly trusted. You must verify it, and also test that restores actually work.
satvikpendem 4 days 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 4 days 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.