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Maintenance

🧼 Some utilities and good practices to keep your isabl instance data safe

Database backups

The cookiecutter-api comes with some handy utilities to manage postgres backups, that you can inspect in your project code directory (compose/production/postgres/maintenance):
1. To create a backup:
docker-compose -f <environment>.yml (exec |run --rm) postgres backup
2. To list/view current backups:
docker-compose -f <environment>.yml (exec |run --rm) postgres backups
3. To restore a backup:
docker-compose -f <environment>.yml (exec |run --rm) postgres restore
It's a good practice to run your backup script regularly. For example, adding it to a cron job that runs periodically (i.e. every month, or every week)

Backup to Amazon S3

After this commit in cookiecutter-api, you can store backups in the cloud in Amazon S3. You need to add these 3 environment variables in your .envs/.production/.django file:
export DJANGO_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=
export DJANGO_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=
export DJANGO_AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME=
4. Upload recursively all the database backups to your AWS S3 bucket
docker-compose -f production.yml run --rm awscli upload
5. Download a specific backup to your instance docker volume
docker-compose -f production.yml run --rm awscli download backup_2018_03_13T09_05_07.sql.gz