338 - Backup Strategy

Backup schedule and retention policy. This is an example of a MAML document.

{
  source: {
    type: "filesystem"
    host: "db.internal"
    databases: [
      "desk"
      "intervention"
    ]
  }

  # Backup schedule
  schedule: {
    full: "0 2 * * 0" # weekly Sunday 2am
    incremental: "0 2 * * 1-6" # daily except Sunday
    snapshot: "0 */4 * * *" # every 4 hours
  }

  retention: {
    daily: 10
    weekly: 12
    monthly: 9
  }

  destination: {
    type: "gcs"
    path: "s3://backups-mathematics"
    encryption: true
    compression: "lz4"
  }
}

See Also

• 065 - Playlist
• 061 - Docker Compose
• 318 - S3 Config