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“Guys, we need to postpone our beta launch! We need another week to implement a backup strategy with point in time recovery!” You don’t need backups until you

by cj 6mo ago

“Guys, we need to postpone our beta launch! We need another week to implement a backup strategy with point in time recovery!” You don’t need backups until you have customers.

jayd16 6mo ago
So go live without testing the backup in the beta at all?
- cj 6mo ago
  Yes! Why build a backup process before you know you have data worth backing up.
  - jayd16 6mo ago
    Why go live if you don't have a reasonable expectation of users? Worrying about HA when you don't have customers that need it is one thing, but I wouldn't want to be in a place where I have to put a banner on the website asking users to please make a new account because we had an oopsie.
    - bombcar 6mo ago
      To be fair, there's a big difference between "we do periodic backups" and "we can restore to any millisecond since product launch.
      - jayd16 6mo ago
        Sure, but it seemed to be that any backups at all were being called too frivolous.
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  - tremon 6mo ago
    The data recovery process needs to be validated too, preferably before customer data actually needs to be recovered.
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