For such a system, backups are mandatory, but they are not enough. And although high availability is an orthogonal topic, which I hope to cover in the future, HA, backup and disaster recovery go hand in hand. Usually popular services carry a hefty cost associated with downtime. When we look at our gaming platform scenario however, we start running into really problematic cases. At this point, depending on volume, we should start considering ways of mitigating an outage during the workday. With nightly backups we do not cover the current day’s orders. When we look at our online shop scenario, things get a little bit more complicated. The costs associated with backing up a WordPress website are usually quite low, as most of the time the database itself is rather small. Depending on the scenario you’re in, you should plan accordingly.įor our WordPress example, it’s probably sufficient to schedule a backup every night for a week and also keep bi-weekly or monthly snapshots. Are you looking after a simple WordPress website that sees edits once a few days or weeks? Is this a somewhat popular online store, with 100-200 orders a day? Or maybe you’re running an online gaming platform that gets thousands of concurrent users, where all their actions need to be recorded. Consider your scenarioīefore you start implementing a backup system, take a look at the system’s needs. This line of thinking is what should guide you when considering backup requirements and is what brings us to the first item in this list.
For example, losing some sensor data for a weather station has much lower impact than losing customer transactions. Then again, not all data is created equal. This means that data loss can severely cripple a company. Why is backing up so important? Well, as Jeff Hardy from Acronis puts it in the webinar, as well as his “ Economic model for cyber protection” at our MariaDB Server Security MiniFest, data is the equivalent of gold in the IT industry. Thus, in this blog post I will cover some of the aspects, particularly related to MariaDB, that were not discussed due to lack of time.īacking up is a very important topic, often overlooked, particularly when it comes to databases. Then again, a webinar is always time constrained so we couldn’t cover everything that I would have liked. The webinar presented quite a number of good ideas and I highly recommend you watch it. The webinar was a follow-up on another join presentation at CloudFest. CPanel in turn helps those service providers to enable their customers to administer their systems via a fully fledged dashboard.
#Data backup best practices software
Acronis develops Cyber Security cloud based software particularly specializing in backup and disaster recovery for other service providers. A few weeks ago we hosted a webinar together with Acronis and CPanel on security and backup best practices as both provide software in this space.
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