Backups and Restores

Servers break, filesystems corrupt, and unexpected incidents happen. For these reasons, it is crucial to make backups of our server data and protect them. Whether it’s a single file database dump or a directory tree of uploaded user avatars, we might need to make a copy and save it safely for the times when things go wrong. It’s also essential to have a process in place to retrieve and restore this data at any time. Therefore we have to learn to collect, compress, encrypt and later restore any backup files.

Table of Contents

Collection and Compression

Encryption

SSH Keys Encryption

Summary

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I am using some scripts I downloaded from Josef Strzibny's book that are setting up Ruby on Rails deployment and automatically installing a PostgreSQL server. I am also using Dokku, but I like the idea of controlling what is happening on the server.
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