Recent posts tagged backup

The trap with rsync is that its dangerous flag combinations don't fail — they complete a different operation than the one you intended, and exit 0. --delete makes the destination match the source, so a mistyped or freshly moved source directory means...

A recoverable self-hosted n8n backup has four core parts: the database, the original encryption key, the deployment configuration and secrets, and any binary-data storage your executions still need. Back up the persistent .n8n volume even wh...

Originally published on DEV Community in July 2026. This version is updated with the current state of the lab and a new section on what happened when I finally tested my backups. I'm an IT Systems Administrator / Service Desk Team Lead L2 in Torino,...

This post explains how to SSH with Rsync to make backup of your system efficiently and securely. The only requisite to start here is an access to SSH somewhere. Create your ssh keys Here, i just create a keypair called “rsync”, ssh will create a p...

> After losing two weeks of work to a crash, I spent years perfecting my > backup strategy. Here's everything I learned managing 10+ client > sites. Why I'm Writing This Three years ago, I lost two weeks of work because I trusted backups I never t...