Disaster Recovery

Plan and execute disaster recovery for Ever Gauzy deployments.

Recovery Point Objective (RPO) & Recovery Time Objective (RTO)

Tier	RPO	RTO	Strategy
Critical	< 1 hour	< 15 min	Hot standby + replicas
Standard	< 24 hours	< 1 hour	Warm standby + backups
Basic	< 7 days	< 4 hours	Cold backup + restore

Backup Strategy

Database Backups

# Daily automated backup
0 2 * * * pg_dump -h $DB_HOST -U $DB_USER gauzy | gzip > /backups/gauzy_$(date +\%Y\%m\%d).sql.gz

# Weekly full backup with retention
find /backups -type f -mtime +30 -delete

File Storage Backups

# Sync uploads to backup location
aws s3 sync s3://gauzy-uploads s3://gauzy-backups/uploads/

# Or for local storage
rsync -avz /app/uploads/ /backup/uploads/

Configuration Backup

Store in version control:

• .env templates (without secrets)
• Docker Compose files
• Kubernetes manifests
• Nginx configurations

Recovery Procedures

1. Database Recovery

# Restore from backup
gunzip -c gauzy_20250305.sql.gz | psql -h $DB_HOST -U $DB_USER gauzy

2. Application Recovery

# Pull latest images
docker compose pull

# Start services
docker compose up -d

# Verify health
curl http://localhost:3000/api/health

3. Full Recovery Checklist

• Restore database from backup
• Restore file uploads
• Deploy application containers
• Verify health checks pass
• Test authentication
• Verify data integrity
• Update DNS if needed
• Notify team

Related Pages

• Database Backup — backup strategies
• Production Deployment — deployment
• Health Checks — monitoring