Ask HN: How do you deal with data backups in servers?

1 atomicnature 0 7/7/2025, 2:54:39 PM

Recently, we lost some data during migrating our servers due to a missing backup.

We thought we had something backed up - but was not really the case.

We have multiple databases and apps - each having its own data store often.

How do you usually deal with server backups? What has worked for you and what has not?

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Ask HN: How do you deal with data backups in servers?

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