BACKUPS!
(Posted 2015-10-18 22:55:30 by corey_reichle)

So, a couple of days ago, I learned first hand how key backups are...
 Usually, I've been backing up this site whenever I do some maintenance,
which isn't often.  But, I also just presumed that data loss on Digital
Ocean [ https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=f70e1765c75a ] has a
probability of slim-to-none.

And, I was probably right.  Unless you count how easily droplets can be
created/deleted.

I popped up a test droplet, just to pick apart a package on a brandy-new
CentOS package.  A while later (After some multitasking), I went to delete
it.  About 0.3 seconds after clicking through to delete it, I realized what
I did:  I deleted the prod web server...

Now, thankfully, the server is configured using Ansible [
http://www.coreyreichle.com/2015/04/19/more-ansible/ ], so I had the new
server deployed in about 9 minutes.  It even pulled down the last git
commit of the site, and the old DB backups; and deployed the code.
 Problem?  I haven't backed up the database in about 4 months.

So, I lost about 4 months of content from this site, and two others.
 Thankfully, one of them hasn't gotten any updates, so really it was this
site, and a neighborhood website.  I feel really bad about the neighborhood
site, as there were lots of updates over the past 4 months.

But, now, I've automated the backups, with Ansible (Of course), so they're
all being backed up now, and any new server will get the same backup setup.

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