Better known as: Backups without Ansible.

As we get rid of our Ansible-managed servers, we are also replacing backup mechanisms that used to be performed by cron jobs installed by Ansible.Backups and Recovery contains a summary of our pre-Heroku backup infrastructure.

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If our database grows much larger (20GB or more) we will probably have to get rid of these frequent logical backups.

Historical notes

Prior to moving off our Ansible-managed servers, we used backup mechanisms that used to be performed by cron jobs installed by Ansible.Backups and Recovery contains a summary of our pre-Heroku backup infrastructure.