I’m doing a webapp and need a backup plan. Here’s what I’ve got so far:
- nightly encrypted backup of the SQL database to Amazon S3 and my external drive (incremental if possible, not overly familiar with PostgreSQL yet, but that’s another thread)
- nightly backup of my Mercurial repo (which includes Apache configs, deploy scripts, etc) to S3 (w/ local backups via Time Machine)
Should I add anything else, or will this cover it? For a gauge of how critical the data is/would be, it’s a project management app along the lines of Basecamp.
Weekly full backup of your database as well as nightly incremental ones as well perhaps?
It means that if one of your old incremental backups gets corrupted then you have lost less than a week of data.
Also, ensure you have a backup test plan to ensure your backups work. There are a lot of horror stories going around about this, from companies that have been doing backups for years, never testing them and then finding out none of them are any good once they need them. (I’ve also been at a company like this. Thankfully I spotted the backups weren’t working before they were required and fixed the problems).