backup

Friday, March 21, 2025, an afternoon like any other at ScalarX… or almost. - A client with a dual-datacenter PROD / PRA infrastructure - Solid servers, dual power supplies, dual network feeds, RAID, replication, backup, then suddenly… nothing. 1) An SSD in the production system RAID has just died. 2) The production failover IP …

This had never happened to me before. Today, a client using an old version of rdiff-backup asked me to restore a file from July, and I ran into this problem: This is a problem I had already encountered once or twice before. It generally …

Hello everyone, over the last 5 years at ScalarX, we have had the opportunity to experiment with different backup strategies for our ScalarCloud cloud infrastructures, each with its advantages and drawbacks. The current strategy (apart from clients with dedicated, bespoke backup infrastructure) is as follows: 1) …

Hello friends, I hope the summer is going well for you. Last year I made a series of livecoding videos on writing a backup script in bash to back up both the databases and files on a LAMP server. I said I would make the script available, but …