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WordCamp Raleigh 2018: A Solid Backup Plan can Save Your Sanity - Peter La Fond
- 1. How a Solid Backup Strategy can Save your Livelihood and Sanity Peter La Fond President My Internet Scout, LLC
- 2. “There are two kinds of people in the world - those who have had a hard drive failure, and those who will.“ Peter Krogh
- 3. Webmaster Having a Good Day
- 4. Panicked Webmaster on a Bad Day
- 5. Typical Webmaster Month April Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
- 6. Almost always happy month May Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
- 7. Hazards Websites Face Malware infection Server Crash Data Center / Network Outages Hosting Company Goes Bankrupt Terrorist-related website takeover F&$#! I deleted the wrong file directory!!
- 8. What is a Website Backup? Backup is a copy of your website. Think of a Backup as a system. Backup is part of your disaster recovery plan. The Backup system is part of your Emergency Operating Procedure.
- 9. Backup Strategies observed in the Wild
- 10. Backup Strategies observed in the Wild Strategy 1 What's a backup? Why do I Need a backup?
- 11. Backup Strategies observed in the Wild Strategy 2 My Host automatically does my backup for me. “TypicalHost makes no guarantee that backups are available.”
- 12. Backup Strategies observed in the Wild Strategy 3 I use AcmeDraft, the most popular backup plugin, and save a copy to my server. Seriously, this was an “official strategy” used by a real business.
- 13. Backup Strategies observed in the Wild Strategy 4 I save backup copies on AWS. Feb 2017 AWS was down for hours on East Coast. Adobe's cloud, Zendesk, Heroku, Coursera, Bitbucket, Autodesk's cloud, Twilio, Mailchimp, Citrix, Expedia, Flipboard all went dark https://www.recode.net/2017/3/2/14792636/amazon-aws-internet-outage-cause-human-error-incorrect- command
- 14. Backup Strategies observed in the Wild Strategy 5 I use the 3-2-1 Method for Backup. 3 – the total number of backup copies per instance. 2 – the number of media types used to store backups. 1 – the number of backup copies offsite in another location.
- 15. This is the 3-2-1 flaw
- 16. Backup Strategies observed in the Wild Strategy 6 I use the 4-3-2 Method for Backup. 4 – the total number of backup copies per instance. 3 – the number of media types used to store backups. 2 – the number of backup copies offsite in another location.
- 18. Q & A Feel free to contact Peter La Fond at: MyInternetScout.com peter@myinternetscout.com
Editor's Notes
- My name is Peter La Fond. I’m the President of My Internet Scout, LLC. And co-organizer of Wordcamp Wilmington 2018.
- How many of you are website admins? Who backups their websites?
- The typical webmaster’s month. Some good days, some not so good days.
- If you’re a webmaster or admin, here’s where what your calendar should look more like, right?
- The purpose of a backup is system to be able to ensure your website survives hazards.
- FIRST A backup should be your last line of defense, not your first Go-to. SECOND When I speak with clients I ask them to re-evaluate their mindset on Backups.
- Fact of the matter is, most hosts only keep 7 or 30 days of backups. Most malware infections are identified and remedied beyond the 30-day timeframe. None provide any variation of the 3-2-1 rule. And almost all have the Guarrantee.
- Fact of the matter is, most hosts only keep 7 or 30 days of backups. Most malware infections are identified and remedied beyond the 30-day timeframe. None provide any variation of the 3-2-1 rule. And almost all have the TypicalHost Guarrantee.
- I could be AWS, Google Drive, Dropbox, Box.com, iThemes, etc.. The outage was so bad, Amazon employees couldn’t access their own dashboard to warn the world.
- 3 – total copies 2 – number of media types 1- number copies offsite at other location.
- 4 – total copies 3 – number of media types Copy in Cloud Copy in Cold Storage Copy on hard drive in office 2 - number copies offsite at other location in a different region.
- These two solutions can automatically upload backups to Dropbox, Google Drive, S3, FTP.