- Challenge
- Liam works mostly as a one-person team, handling design, development, release and maintenance. He used to run cron scripts on each server to back up databases, and they sometimes failed without his knowledge.
- Solution
- SimpleBackups runs automated database backups at custom intervals and stores them in S3 buckets. It alerts him when a backup fails and shows all backups and schedules across his production servers in one place.
- Results
- One view of backups and schedules across all production servers.
- Alerts when a backup fails.
- Backups at custom intervals, stored in S3 buckets.
Liam Cottle mostly takes contract work building custom software. His projects typically use the Laravel stack (PHP, JavaScript, Nginx and MySQL), deployed through GitHub Actions to dedicated servers for each project, and some larger projects run on on-premise Kubernetes clusters with varied stacks.
Backups that could fail without him knowing
As a solo engineer responsible for everything from design to maintenance, Liam relied on cron scripts on each server to back up his databases. Sometimes those scripts failed without his knowledge.
One view of every production backup
With SimpleBackups, database backups run automatically at custom intervals and are stored in S3 buckets. He gets an alert when a backup fails, and a single view of backups and schedules across all his production servers.
For teams of any size
Liam recommends SimpleBackups to teams of any size, for its simple interface and automated database backups.
SimpleBackups has made my backup and recovery plan a breeze.
Liam CottleSoftware Engineer
