The most dangerous backup is the one that's been silently failing for 3 months. The job is in cron. The script "ran." Everyone assumes it's working. Nobody checks. Then disk fills up, or a credential …
"It's all in Git" is the developer's version of "my host does backups." Git has your code. It does not have your database, your user uploads, your .env secrets, your production config, your cron entri…
RAID is not a backup. It never was. Stop pretending. RAID protects against one thing: a disk dying. It does nothing against rm -rf, a dropped table, ransomware, a bad UPDATE without a WHERE, fire, the…
Backing up every night and overwriting yesterday is how you back up corruption. Silent corruption, a bad migration, a slow-leaking ransomware encrypt: these don't announce themselves. They creep in, a…
Nobody cares that you have backups. They care how fast you're back online. A 400GB backup that takes 9 hours to download and 4 to import is a 13-hour outage no matter how "complete" it is. Meanwhile y…
Your backup frequency is a dollar figure, and you set it by accident. Nightly backups on a store doing 200 orders a day means a crash at 11pm costs you a full day of orders, customer details, and inve…
