Automated Remote Backups

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After a little searching through the forums for the best automated solution for remote backups. I found the generous work of Guillaume, who was inspired by @MWDelaney’s brilliant work on Trellis-Backup.

Guillaumes Trellis PR

backup feature

MWDelaneys Trellis Backup

Trellis-Backup, an ansible role for local backups

Continuing the discussion from Your Agency's Backup Plan: I've created a preliminary GitHub repo of an Ansible role for defining a set of backup jobs called Trellis-Backup. The goal is to use the existing site information defined by Trellis to configure useful backup jobs, which are in turn created by Stouts.backup, that will be stored locally on the server. These can then be moved/rsynced/included in snapshots for a more thorough backup solution. Currently two jobs are defined per site in…

I’ve had no success with GTPR as of yet, but am determined to make it work with AWS S3 as my remote location.

I thought it was worth starting a thread to see how everybody else is doing such a crucial task - surely we all have some good ideas to share