We take data-safety of our Mastodon user data serious and have implemented multiple levels of backups with rigorous bi-yearly restore tests and documentation.
We do:
- Periodic local file system snapshots (Every 15 minutes).
- Filesystem replication to backup-server in Germany (Hetzner, Falkenstein).
- Filesystem replication to second backup-server in Switzerland (Equinix ZH4, Zürich).
- GPG Encrypted Application-layer backup (PostgreSQL, Mastodon configuration) to server from bbₜᵤₓᵢ (npub1zyt…u6da) in Germany.
Every single of those backup-layers is monitored, tested (and recover-tested) bi-yearly at least.
Our infrastructure runs on FreeBSD/ZFS with one backup-layer using "zfs send/recv" plus an addition application backup layer that's using pg_dump+gpg. Just to be on the safe side.
All backup-jobs are monitored and the status (success/fail) is transperently visible on https://status.burningboard.net/
#mastodon #mastoadmin #freebsd #zfs #backups #digitalindipendence
Larvitz :fedora:
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