Backups and recovery · 10 min read
restic forget and prune: how the keep flags decide
How restic forget --keep-daily, --keep-weekly and --keep-monthly combine, what prune really deletes, and how to pick a policy and test it with --dry-run.
Posts tagged “restic”
5 articles about restic.
Backups and recovery · 9 min read
A restic backup recipe for SQLite and Postgres on one VPS
Back up a small server with restic without corrupt databases, using SQLite online backup, pg_dump with roles, aborts on bad dumps and a restore test.
Backups and recovery · 9 min read
Monitoring backups so that silence never means success
Set up dead-man's-switch pings, exit-code handling, snapshot age checks and failure alerts for a restic backup, so a job that stops running gets noticed.
Backups and recovery · 8 min read
I destroyed my server on purpose and timed the recovery
Script a disaster-recovery drill for one VPS. Destroy the server, rebuild from restic, check the data, and see timings and five failures it found.
Backups and recovery · 9 min read
The 3-2-1 backup rule applied to a single VPS
Translate 3-2-1 backups to one small server. See what counts as a copy, where the offsite one goes, how object storage compares with SFTP, and what it costs.