Comment on Ask HN: How do you backup your database?parentComments−brudgers3yTo me:1. The place to check if everything works is a running system after a restore. None of the rest matters if that doesn't work.2. If I wanted something simple and reliable, I would spend the money and use tape.3. If I was rolling my own cloud backup, I would abstract it to work with the Linux Tape API.https://linux.die.net/man/1/mthttps://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterp...4. AWS seems to have anticipated my intuitionhttps://aws.amazon.com/storagegateway/vtl/5. The caveat is that this is all theory and may not work for your particular needs.
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To me:
1. The place to check if everything works is a running system after a restore. None of the rest matters if that doesn't work.
2. If I wanted something simple and reliable, I would spend the money and use tape.
3. If I was rolling my own cloud backup, I would abstract it to work with the Linux Tape API.
https://linux.die.net/man/1/mt
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterp...
4. AWS seems to have anticipated my intuition
https://aws.amazon.com/storagegateway/vtl/
5. The caveat is that this is all theory and may not work for your particular needs.