Using S3 as Your Disaster Recovery Target: A Practical Guide
Using S3 as Your Disaster Recovery Target: A Practical Guide S3 works as a disaster-recovery target because your data is already there, it is redund…
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Velero Said Backups Succeeded. The Data Was Never There.
Originally published at woitzik.dev Disclosure: This post contains Amazon affiliate links (marked with *). If you buy through them, I earn a small c…
Duplicati on Backblaze B2 vs Backblaze Personal Backup: where the yearly cost actually crosses over
Duplicati backing up to Backblaze B2 costs less per year than a Backblaze Personal Backup subscription only below a dataset size you can calculate i…
Termux-Sync: Don't Rebuild Termux. Restore It
If you use Termux on Android as a real development environment, you eventually run into the same problem: What happens when you get a new phone? You…
How I Built a MongoDB Backup System That Can Undo an Accidental Drop
Every developer has the same nightmare. Someone runs a command on the wrong database, a collection gets dropped, and suddenly the data is just gone.…
Best NAS for Home Backup 2026
Originally published at woitzik.dev Disclosure: This post contains Amazon affiliate links (marked with *). If you buy through them, I earn a small c…
When a Git Host Goes Dark: A Practical Backup Plan for Repos
A Git outage rarely looks dramatic at first. Someone cannot push during a release, a repository disappears from an organization, an admin account is…
Claude Code for Backup Automation: How I Stopped Trusting Backups I Had Never Actually Restored
For most of my career I had backups I had never restored. The backup job ran every night. The green checkmark appeared every morning. The storage bu…
How to Back Up Your Server Files and Database (Before You Learn the Hard Way)
There is a special kind of silence that hits you the moment you realize your data is gone. No database. No uploads. No .env . Just an empty folder w…
Veeam Backup & Replication End of Life: What EOL Backup Software Means for Your Compliance Posture
Veeam Backup & Replication is deeply embedded in enterprise infrastructure. It's also one of those products that teams install, configure, and t…
I had to restore an entire database just to recover one deleted row
Let me vent for a second, because last week broke me a little. I've been doing SRE / database ops for about 5 years, and I keep relearning the same…
The Fire That Reached the Backups: The OVHcloud Strasbourg Data-Centre Fire, 2021
Tales from the Bare Metal — Episode 05 In the early hours of 10 March 2021, a fire began in a power room in Strasbourg. By morning an entire data ce…
GBase 8a Backup and Restore Guide: Full and Incremental Backups with gbackup
GBase 8a stores massive analytical datasets across many nodes. If hardware fails, someone drops a table, or an upgrade goes wrong, a solid backup st…