Etcd-backup-restore is collection of components to backup and restore the etcd. It also, provides the ability to validate the data directory, so that we could know the data directory is in good shape to bootstrap etcd successfully.

The K10 data management platform, purpose-built for Kubernetes, provides enterprise operations teams an easy-to-use, scalable, and secure system for backup/restore, disaster recovery, and mobility of Kubernetes applications.

K10’s application-centric approach and deep integrations with relational and NoSQL databases, Kubernetes distributions, and all clouds provides teams the freedom of infrastructure choice without sacrificing operational simplicity. Policy-driven and extensible, K10 provides a native Kubernetes API and includes features such full-spectrum consistency, database integrations, automatic application discovery, multi-cloud mobility, and a powerful web-based user interface.

Given K10’s extensive ecosystem support you have the flexibility to choose environments (public/ private/ hybrid cloud/ on-prem) and Kubernetes distributions (cloud vendor managed or self managed) in support of three principal use cases:

• Backup and Restore

• Disaster Recovery

• Application Mobility

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BorgBackup (short: Borg) is a deduplicating backup program. Optionally, it supports compression and authenticated encryption.

The main goal of Borg is to provide an efficient and secure way to backup data. The data deduplication technique used makes Borg suitable for daily backups since only changes are stored. The authenticated encryption technique makes it suitable for backups to not fully trusted targets.

See the installation manual or, if you have already downloaded Borg, docs/installation.rst to get started with Borg. There is also an offline documentation available, in multiple formats.

Back up your database when you open KeePass

Samba backups provide a way to recover your Samba AD domain, in the unlikely event that it suffers a catastrophic failure. It does not backup individual DCs.

In the past, ITOps and DevOps have found it hard to add replicated storage to Kubernetes clusters. As a result many non-cloud-hosted Kubernetes clusters don’t support persistent storage. External storage arrays are non-portable and can be extremely expensive.

Longhorn delivers simplified, easy to deploy and upgrade, 100% open source, cloud-native persistent block storage without the cost overhead of open core or proprietary alternatives.

Free backup software to store encrypted backups online
For Windows, macOS and Linux

For production deployments, it is best practice that each plane runs on dedicated physical or virtual hosts. For development, multi-tenancy may be used to simplify management and reduce costs.

Jetzt ist es passiert: Ich muss eines meiner Android-Geräte zwecks Reparatur zum Service-Center einschicken. Das bedeutet natürlich einen „Factory-Reset“ vor dem Verpacken, was ein vorheriges (gutes) Backup impliziert. Zwar erstelle ich regelmäßig diverse Sicherungen (etwa automatisch mit Titanium Backup), aber habe ich wirklich an alles gedacht? Wird die Wiederherstellung ein „Kinderspiel”? Vielleicht sollte ich die Chance auch gleich zum „Aufräumen“ nutzen. Oh, und was ist mit der ganzen „Bloatware“, die ich mühselig ausfindig gemacht und deaktiviert habe, und den deaktivierten „Auto-Starts“? Wieviel Handarbeit kommt da auf mich zu, wenn ich mein Gerät wieder habe?

Oxidized is a network device configuration backup tool. It's a RANCID replacement!

Light and extensible, Oxidized supports more than 120 operating system types.

Feature highlights:

Automatically adds/removes threads to meet configured retrieval interval
Restful API to a move node immediately to head-of-queue (GET/POST /node/next/[NODE])
Syslog udp+file example to catch config change events (IOS/JunOS) and trigger a config fetch
    Will signal which IOS/JunOS user made the change, can then be used by output modules (via POST)
    The git output module uses this info - 'git blame' will show who changed each line, and when
Restful API to reload list of nodes (GET /reload)
Restful API to fetch configurations (/node/fetch/[NODE] or /node/fetch/group/[NODE])
Restful API to show list of nodes (GET /nodes)
Restful API to show list of version for a node (/node/version[NODE]) and diffs

borgmatic is a simple Python wrapper script for the Borg backup software that initiates a backup, prunes any old backups according to a retention policy, and validates backups for consistency. The script supports specifying your settings in a declarative configuration file rather than having to put them all on the command-line, and handles common errors.

atticmatic is a simple Python wrapper script for the Attic and Borg backup software that initiates a backup, prunes any old backups according to a retention policy, and validates backups for consistency. The script supports specifying your settings in a declarative configuration file rather than having to put them all on the command-line, and handles common errors.

Vorta is a backup client for macOS and Linux desktops. It integrates the mighty BorgBackup with your desktop environment to protect your data from disk failure, ransomware and theft.

We usually take care of things we value, whether it is an expensive smartphone or the company’s servers. Data is one of the most important assets of the organisation, and although we do not see it, it has to be carefully protected. We implement data at rest encryption to encrypt database files or whole volumes which contain our data. We implement data in transit encryption using SSL to make sure no one can sniff and collect data sent across networks. Backups are no different. No matter if this is a full backup or incremental, it will store at least a part of your data. As such, backups have to be encrypted too. In this blog post, we will look into some options you may have when it comes to encrypting backups. First though, let’s look at how you can encrypt your backups and what could be use cases for those methods.

Ark gives you tools to back up and restore your Kubernetes cluster resources and persistent volumes. Ark lets you:

Take backups of your cluster and restore in case of loss.
Copy cluster resources across cloud providers. NOTE: Cloud volume migrations are not yet supported.
Replicate your production environment for development and testing environments.

Ark consists of:

A server that runs on your cluster
A command-line client that runs locally

Barman (Backup and Recovery Manager) is an open-source administration tool for disaster recovery of PostgreSQL servers written in Python. It allows your organisation to perform remote backups of multiple servers in business critical environments to reduce risk and help DBAs during the recovery phase.

Barman is distributed under GNU GPL 3 and maintained by 2ndQuadrant, a platinum sponsor of the PostgreSQL project.

While I was searching for a VCS capable RANCID, somewhere under a stone I found Oxidized, a 'silly attempt at rancid'. Looking at it, it seems more sophisticated, so I thought this might be the right attempt. Unfortunately there is no Debian package available, but I found an ITP created by Jonas.

When discussing disaster recovery, it’s important to take your business’ continuity plan into consideration. Backup and recovery processes are a critical part of any application infrastructure.

A well-tested backup and recovery system can be the difference between a minor outage and the end of your business.

You will want to take three things into consideration when planning your disaster recovery strategy: recovery time objective, recovery point objective and risk mitigation.

Recovery time objective (RTO) is how long it takes to restore your backups. Recovery point objective (RPO) is what point in time you want to recover (in other words, how much data you can afford to lose after recovery). Finally, you need to understand what risks you are trying to mitigate. Risks to your data include (but are not limited to) bad actors, data corruption, user error, host failure and data center failure.

Schrödinger's Backup: "The condition of any backup is unknown until a restore is attempted"

So you're backing up your databases, but are you regularly checking that the backups are actually useable? Uphold will help you automatically test them by downloading the backup, decompressing, loading and then running programmatic tests against it that you define to make sure they really have what you need.