I could choose to pay a cloud service for a managed database but instead this week I chose to set up WAL-based continuous backup to R2 and point-in-time recovery for my Postgres instance. This would have been unthinkable for me a year ago but here we are. All the processes are meticulously documented in a git repo, and I did a disaster recovery test today which spun up a new server and restored the DB. It was quick and seemingly seamless. This experience has been encouraging and it’s c...
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