Databases have their normal backup tools, which are fine for the data. Important intense-load databases can have one-way replication set up to a separate box th

Databases have their normal backup tools, which are fine for the data. Important intense-load databases can have one-way replication set up to a separate box that can do proper point-in-time backups without slowing production. Raw (uncompressed) backup data would be efficiently turned into incremental / full backup mix with something like Restic or Kopia, and shipped to something like Backblaze or S3 Glacier. Configuration and other stuff lives outside the VMs, in some git repo, in the form of terraform / saltstack / shell scripts / what have you, that can rebuild the VM from scratch, and does it regularly. Git has very good built-in "backup tools". What else needs backing up in a DB server?