We use the old crusty Datastire Admin backup tool. We run it nightly from a cron. We backup most important entity types nightly, and some less important types weekly. We have tested disaster recovery, and it all seems to work fine
We do this to defend against programmer error or attack, e.g. If some programmatic process were to delete or mangle our whole Datastore. The major downside of this aporozch is that is is insanely expensive. We have to read every Datastore instance every day, which takes a lot of Read and a lot of Instance Hours. For a modest sized datastore this costs us several hundred dollars per month. I really wish there was a better approach -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/61f4cdf8-0370-4d49-abe8-e3e46dab9589%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
