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If youre not Netflix then just sudo yum install postgresql and pg_dump every day, upload to S3. Has worked for me for 20 years at various companies, side projects, startups …


> If youre not Netflix then just sudo yum install postgresql and pg_dump every day, upload to S3.

database services such as DynamoDB support a few backup strategies out of the box, including continuous backups. You just need to flips switch and never bother about it again.

> Has worked for me for 20 years at various companies, side projects, startups …

That's perfectly fine. There are still developers who don't even use version control at all. Some old habits die hard, even when the whole world moved on.


What happens when the server goes down ? How do you update it ?


you stand up another db server and load the last good dump into it i suppose




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