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by cbanek 624 days ago
If you use elastic block storage in the cloud, many times they will let you do snapshots and backups of that.

If you can't do that, make a script to make a .tgz backup and have cron do it every day and copy it up to an s3 bucket. Have the s3 bucket configured to delete items that are over a certain age.

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But what you need to consider often is, having a consistent state in those snapshots, this can be a nasty thing for examble with all sorts of databases or configuration as database (boltdb, sqlite,...)
Turning on WAL for SQLite mitigates most concerns with inconsistent block storage state.
Yes, but i meant in general, idk if ALL those systems support wal archiving.