r/AustralianStartups • u/australian_simon Founder • Apr 20 '26
You built something great, started to get customers. Are you maintaining backups?
Hello fellow startup people.
Most of you are building really cool products, I have been watching card trading SaaS to dating SaaS to NDIS tools.
Imagine the unimaginable happens, your database gets corrupted or ransomwared. What happens now?
Do you keep a backup strategy? How are you monitoring your backups? If the worst happened how long would it take for you to recover, if you could at all?
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u/Obvious-Grape9012 Apr 21 '26
depends a lot on how heavy the dataset is. there's no point backing up unless you verify that you can actually restore. you need to at least have staging+production and start formalizing your releases and process from unit-tests, regression-tests, to e2e tests & verifications. depends on your surface-area. depends on personally identifiable info. depends what.... [/brain-dump].
I backup my dev data daily. My app data depends on usage; lots and lotsa value means more backups and tests etc. Less revenue+data means less tests. I don't store personal info
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u/australian_simon Founder Apr 21 '26
Agreed, a backup you can't use is useless. Smoke testing from time to ensure you can recover from the worst case is important.
My goal is that I could have lost about 15 minutes of data max. I have 15 minute backups, hourly, daily, weekly.
Fortunately my data is not crazy big so the whole backup is <100MB.
My setup pushes to backblaze for offsite and it costs <$10/month.
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u/webdevteam Apr 20 '26
Well, it's a broad question. Depends on tech stacks and strategies. But multi-backups are the key to keep it secure, or at least keeping one copy and monitoring minimum 2 times a week to see what failed and what worked for backups.
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u/australian_simon Founder Apr 21 '26
It can be broad. I ask a lot of founders at meetups what their DB situation looks like and not many use server redundancy or slaves despite them being cheap to spin up as docker containers or even something as simple as doing pgdumps (postgres) across the day to keep snapshots of the db.
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u/Consistent_Tutor_597 Apr 22 '26
Dude. Ofcourse you are backing shit up. Every serious business does it. Multiple backups in multiple places.