Clean Shutdown and Restart Order for a Small Office in a Texas Grid Emergency
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Small SaaS Backup Storage: Private S3-Compatible Buckets for EU Tenant Isolation
Short answer: for a small SaaS storing user-upload archives and periodic database dumps in Europe, private object storage is the sensible low-cost d…
The Vendor Retention Window Wasn't a Recovery Control
A vendor retention window is a lifecycle schedule, not a recovery control, and the Microsoft 365 deletion reported on September 28 is a clean exampl…
Verifying PostgreSQL Backups Using pg_verifybackup
Pg_verifybackup was introduced in PostgreSQL 13 and is used to check the integrity of a base backup taken using Pg_basebackup against the backup_man…
PostgreSQL Point-in-Time Recovery in Kubernetes: WAL-G + Stolon Pattern
PostgreSQL Point-in-Time Recovery in Kubernetes: WAL-G + Stolon Pattern We recovered a 2TB PostgreSQL database to 14:32:18 yesterday after a botched…
The Backup Business Nobody Talks About: What It Costs to Start One in 2026
Most IT people who want recurring revenue look at hosting, managed services or SaaS reselling. Very few look at backup - which is odd, because backu…
How to Back Up Nextcloud with Portabase
Hosting your own Nextcloud instance lets you keep full control over your files, calendars, contacts, and other data. In return, self-hosting also me…
A Folder Vanished and Both Sides Thought the Other Had a Copy
A project team asked us in September to restore a folder they had deleted in July. It held about six weeks of design material for work that had sinc…
Our Backup System Had the Keys to Everything It Backed Up
We passed the tabletop exercise on backups for years. Offsite copies, tested restores, documented retention. The thing we never examined was how the…
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…
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…
K8S-бэкап в «Бересте»: под капотом интеграции
ПО «Береста» – отечественный флагман в мире систем резервного копирования и восстановления данных (РКиВД) корпоративного уровня. Мы активно развивае…
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…
Как строить отказоустойчивые кластеры Kubernetes: краткий разбор от команды VK Cloud
Миграция в облако и переход к микросервисной архитектуре сделали Kubernetes (k8s) де-факто стандартом для управления контейнерами. По данным 2025 го…
Как строить отказоустойчивые кластеры Kubernetes: краткий разбор от команды VK Cloud
Миграция в облако и переход к микросервисной архитектуре сделали Kubernetes (k8s) де-факто стандартом для управления контейнерами. По данным 2025 го…
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…