| # Hourly Off-site Backups | |
| In order to avoid more data loss we implemented hourly off-site backups in [#5150](https://github.com/withspectrum/spectrum/pull/5150). While the implementation is simple, it should cover us well enough. | |
| It works by running two cron jobs: | |
| 1. Runs at 30 minutes past every hour and triggers an "on-demand backup" with our database host (Compose) | |
| 2. Runs at 0 minutes past every hour, fetches the latest "on-demand backup" from our database host and uploads it to our S3 bucket | |
| To access the latest hourly backup you can either go to the Compose dashboard (app.compose.com), navigate to the RethinkDB deployment and download the newest on-demand backup, or open our S3 bucket and download the latest one from there. | |