learn.halkyon.eu dumps its database every hour (people's files are in it
too) and restic stores the dump encrypted in a Hetzner Storage Box,
keeping 24 hourly, 7 daily, 4 weekly and 3 monthly snapshots. The box's
own snapshots, removable only in Hetzner's Console, protect the backups
from a taken-over server. A systemd timer runs it as deploy; once a day
it also prunes and checks the repository. Failures go to the journal.
Hourly, because a restore costs people who started after the backup
what their device held: the app no longer finds its session and starts
anew. deploy/backups.md describes the setup, the restore and what a
restore loses; both were rehearsed on the local Compose stack.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Tizian 「ティツィアーン」 <raisondetredev@pm.me>
