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[MJ]

@julian said:

You should make regular automated backups.

I know, but I have digital ocean and they support automatic backup weekly, not daily

[pichalite]

@MJ you can set up automatic backups for your redis db. Don't need backup service from digital ocean.

[MJ]

@pichalite said:

@MJ you can set up automatic backups for your redis db. Don't need backup service from digital ocean.

How do I do that?

[Bri]

@MJ Crontab is typically the way to go here

[wellenreiter]

I use logrotate to copy the database and then compress it on a daily basis.
It automatically keeps 7 days, so I cover the time from one provider backup to the next one.

[julian]

@wellenreiter You know, I never really got the hang of logrotate. Never liked the config style, but perhaps I'll look into it again.

[wellenreiter]

@julian

This is the file I use:

/var/lib/redis/*.rdb {
        rotate 1
        daily
        missingok
        copy
        maxsize 500k
}
/var/lib/redis/*.rdb.1 {
        rotate 7
        daily
        missingok
        compress
        minsize 10k
 }

It first copies the rdb file to rdb.1 and then compresses it.
7 copies of the compressed file are kept

[julian]

Does that back up the redis dump file daily, and then extend the backup to 7 days?

Is it not possible to just use a single block for it? rotate 7 on the *.rdb?

[wellenreiter]

If you are fine with just a copy you can use a rotate 7 in the first block and delete the 2nd one

[julian]

Ooh, I see... it gzips it in the 2nd block. Understood, thank you

[wellenreiter]

There is no CopyZip in logrotate, so you have to do it in two steps