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Servers are at a mix of "cloud" providers, and on-site. Most data (including system configs!) is backed up on-site nightly, and to B2 nightly with historical co
by jfrunyon 6y ago
Servers are at a mix of "cloud" providers, and on-site. Most data (including system configs!) is backed up on-site nightly, and to B2 nightly with historical copies - and critical data is also live-replicated to our international branches. (Some "meh" data is backed up only to B2, like our phone logs; we can get most of the info from our carrier anyway).
Our goal and the reason we have a lot of stuff backed up on-prem is to have our most time-critical operations back up within a couple of hours - unless the building is destroyed, in which case that's a moot point and we'll take what we can get.
A dev wiped our almost-monolithic sales/manufacturing/billing/etc MySQL database a month or two ago. (I have been repeatedly overruled on the topic of taking access to prod away from devs) We were down for around an hour. Most of that time was spent pulling gigs of data out of the binlog without also wiping it all again. Because our nightly backups had failed a couple weeks prior - after our most recent monthly "glance at it".