They backed up the database. Forgot 90,000 user uploads. Marketplace, server died. Restore went perfectly — the postgres dump came back clean in 20 minutes. Then support tickets flooded in: every prod…
Ransomware encrypted their backups too — because they were mounted Agency, 2TB of client work. They had a real backup server. Problem: it was a permanently mounted network drive, writable from every w…
They backed up nightly for 8 months. Every single file was corrupt SaaS company, proud of their automation: 240 consecutive successful backup jobs, green checkmarks all the way. Then a DB crash forced…
The host had backups. They wanted $1,900 to give them back E-commerce store, hacked, database trashed. Owner relaxed — the host advertised "daily backups included." Turns out "included" meant stored. …
A client lost 4 years of data to a single bad command Media site, 280GB, ran on one VPS. Their "backup"? Nightly snapshots stored on the same disk. One rm -rf in the wrong directory and the snapshots …
Your backup system deserves the same engineering rigor as your product. Right now it gets none. Think about it: your app has tests, monitoring, code review, staging, on-call. Your backups have a cron …
