November 1, 2024
PostgreSQL custom format versus plain export, what each one costs you at restore time, and how to pick between them before you take the backup rather than after.
September 13, 2024
Explore ins and outs of Grandfather-Father-Son backup strategy, its benefits (together with limitations), as well as practical implementations and real-life case studies.
September 12, 2024
The 3-2-1 rule: three copies of your data, on two kinds of media, with one of them off-site. Where it came from, how to apply it, and where it runs out.
August 15, 2024
Learn why relying solely on GitHub's built-in redundancy isn't enough for ISO 27001 and SOC 2 compliance. Discover the importance of independent backups to protect your code and meet stringent data protection standards.
August 6, 2024
How to back up GitHub repositories and metadata with code snippets for git mirror, the GitHub API, and GitHub Actions, plus backing up a whole organization to S3 and restoring from a backup.
March 29, 2024
Automate backups of the PostgreSQL database in your Aiven data pipeline: grab the connection string, whitelist the backup IPs, and store the dumps on S3.
March 20, 2024
Back up a Neon PostgreSQL database with SimpleBackups: create a backup user, take the connection string, allow network access, then schedule and restore it.
March 19, 2024
Back up a Neon PostgreSQL database with pg_dump: the connection string format, the exact commands to run, and how to schedule the dumps to off-site storage.
February 16, 2024
A Bash script that backs up GitLab repositories through the API: what you need from git, jq and an access token, and how to schedule the script to run.
