Backup strategy

Your data

Overall advice: try and keep the least amount of documents, code or anything else related only locally on your laptop without a server backup. It’s pretty easy to incorporate this in your workflow with the following advice.

Documents

They best live in Gitlab issues, the Gitlab Wiki or our Nextcloud instance. There’s no reason to keep anything local.

Code

Make sure all of your code is versioned in Git. Our Gitlab server is a safe place for this. Commit and push at least once a day to ensure you won’t loose more than a day’s worth of work.

Secrets

Use the Vaultwarden server for secrets.

Automated backups

Our services on .d-centralize.nl are all backed up hourly by our hosting provider(s). Note that restore can’t be done on a per-file basis, only the whole images can be restored.

NAS

Our company NAS has no (offsite) backups, so don’t use it to store important files. It’s advised to use our Nextcloud storage instead.