Introduction
With the increasing amount of company’s data, the task of protecting it becomes more challenging, especially in the cloud. As a result, the demand for reliable backup and recovery solutions has never been greater.
According to IBM, Backup and restore refers to technologies and practices for making periodic copies of data to a separate, secondary device and then using those copies to recover the critical company’s data in cases where data is lost or damaged due to different events such as power outage, cyberattack, human error or disaster.
The aim behind this article is to explain how to backup a Postgres database to an S3 Object Storage using backup scripts provided by the Postgres wiki and the s3fs-fuse project explained in my previous article. It also explains how to restore your database once its isbacked up.
Postgres Database using Docker
Based on Docker’s official documentation. Docker is defined as an open platform for developing, shipping, and running applications. It provides the ability to package and run an application in an isolated environment called a container.
A container is a standard unit of software that packages up code and all its dependencies so the application runs quickly and reliably from one computing environment to another. A Docker container image is a lightweight, standalone, executable package of software that includes everything needed to run an application.
To install Docker, follow these steps for Ubuntu:
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