Rodolpho Arruda

Tag: backup

  • Switched Duplicati with Restic

    It all started with a simple version upgrade. It was my bad I didn’t check if everything was still in place after it. I took the risk and blindly assumed jobs would run smoothly afterwards. I was wrong many times: Infra management can be cruel to you if you make the above mistakes. It was…

  • It’s 2024. AI creates more than 25% of Google’s code.

    A couple of weeks ago I was discussing with a handful of other people in LinkedIn how they keep their backups. It was interesting to know that people are more concerned about keeping their data safe. Some were using local servers and even SANs to run their backups. Nice! One comment caught my attention, though,…

  • How I Backup this Website

    Once a week a cron job generates a database dump of the WordPress installation. Then, another cron generates a tar within the /backup folder. This is the first copy of the original files stored in the same location of the originals. Every week another cron will clean up the folder of tars older than 3…