Backups & Recovery

Snapshots are the cheapest insurance you'll ever buy. They take a few seconds to create, roll back in under a minute,…

Snapshots in the LYLIX portal are great for "I made a change and broke something" but they live on the same storage…

Restic + Backblaze B2 is the lowest-friction credible off-host backup pairing for a single VPS. Encryption is built…

The most common backup failure mode isn't "we forgot to run backups" — it's "we ran backups for two years and never…

Backing up a filesystem snapshot of /var/lib/mysql or /var/lib/pgsql while the database is running gives you a 50/50…

Borg is a great backup engine; borgmatic is the YAML-driven wrapper that turns borg into a hands-off scheduled backup…

For a single LYLIX VPS doing nightly off-host backups, the storage bill is a small line item but worth thinking…

The hour after you realize you need to restore from off-host backup is not the time to be reading documentation. This…

Encrypted backups are mandatory — putting unencrypted backups in a cloud bucket is a privacy incident waiting to…