Setup DB backups for UCI-DB server used in swarm

[tushar5526]

• Discuss on the way to create, tag and invalidate backups.
• Setup cron jobs to implement data backups

Project

UCI

Organization Name:

Samagra

Domain

Communications

Tech Skills Needed:

Docker, Jenkins, Linux

Mentor(s)

@tushar5526

Complexity

Medium

Category

CI/CD

Sub Category

Docker, Jenkins, Deployment

[tushar5526]

Question

• Should we add support for backups as a feature from UCI? Mostly backups are done differently in different orgs and is the org's responsibility to maintain backups.

• We can provide a generic script / steps that user can manually run to create backups of the deployment made through docker-deploy. This script can be used all over samagra, so a generalised script specific to samagra would make more sense.

• To have backups currently, we can create snapshots of the DB server on DO