Backups & Recovery
Snapshots, off-host backup strategies (restic, borg, rsnapshot), and rescue-mode recovery.
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The most common backup failure mode isn't "we forgot to run backups" — it's "we ran backups for two years and never tried to restore them." Bit rot, corrupted…
Borg is a great backup engine; borgmatic is the YAML-driven wrapper that turns borg into a hands-off scheduled backup system. You declare what to back up, what…
Backing up a filesystem snapshot of /var/lib/mysql or /var/lib/pgsql while the database is running gives you a 50/50 shot at a usable restore. Maybe the…
The hour after you realize you need to restore from off-host backup is not the time to be reading documentation. This article is the runbook — concrete steps…
Encrypted backups are mandatory — putting unencrypted backups in a cloud bucket is a privacy incident waiting to happen — but they introduce a new failure…
Snapshots are the cheapest insurance you'll ever buy. They take a few seconds to create, roll back in under a minute, and let you try a risky change knowing…
For a single LYLIX VPS doing nightly off-host backups, the storage bill is a small line item but worth thinking through before you pick a target. The default…
Snapshots in the LYLIX portal are great for "I made a change and broke something" but they live on the same storage pool as your VPS. If the pool fails, the…
Restic + Backblaze B2 is the lowest-friction credible off-host backup pairing for a single VPS. Encryption is built in, deduplication is automatic, B2 storage…