Hosting Service Backing up Websites and Disaster REcovery?

[afadavit123]

Hi guys I want to start my own hosting company. I was wondering since data is so important how do I make sure not to lose it? What is the best practice for backing up data and creating backups and doing disaster recovery? What agents do you guys, what kind of retention and backup policies and how does everything work?
Thank you

 

[UnfriendlyDuck]

Do you have discord? There are a couple solutions you can use but it really depends on your use case

 

[afadavit123]

You want to start a hosting when you don't know how to do backups? You shouldn't start a hosting company with no experience with stuff like that.

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Okay - in terms of specifics, any programs you'd recommend?[DOUBLEPOST=1610644158][/DOUBLEPOST]

Do you have discord? There are a couple solutions you can use but it really depends on your use case

PM Me

 

[UnfriendlyDuck]

PM Me

Alright.

 

[RileyN]

1. SSD's
2. 10g/40g networking (separate storage network)
3. Proxmox backup server

 

[RileyN]

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Remoting the backups is an easy solution, but ultimately relies on the internet/bandwidth usage. That limits what running services/applications are able to utilize. With a schematic like this, storage and internet traffic are through the same "pipe" which proves to be problematic.

Hosting companies that offer backup solutions typically would have a secondary storage/iSCSI connection, meaning storage and internet do not mix and/or limit each other. You don't have to be a large corporation to achieve this, either.

Maybe the best thing to do in this case would be request a series (atleast two) SSD's be put a server and mirror them. Have backups store there, which wouldn't involve internet & you'd have the benefit of redundancy. My two cents.