Backup and Disaster Recovery - Indic8

Reliable backups ensure your historical financial telemetry and sovereign ledger remain protected against hardware failures.

Automated Postgres Backups

You can run daily automated backups using pg_dump wrapped in a cron job:

#!/bin/bash
BACKUP_DIR="/var/backups/indic8"
TIMESTAMP=$(date +"%Y%m%d_%H%M%S")
FILENAME="$BACKUP_DIR/indic8_backup_$TIMESTAMP.sql.gz"

mkdir -p $BACKUP_DIR

docker exec -t indic8-postgres pg_dump -U indic8_user indic8_db | gzip > $FILENAME

# Keep 30 days of retention
find $BACKUP_DIR -type f -name "*.sql.gz" -mtime +30 -delete

Restoring from a Backup

To restore your database from a compressed snapshot file:

# Decompress and stream into the Postgres container
gunzip -c /var/backups/indic8/indic8_backup_20260913_120000.sql.gz | \
  docker exec -i indic8-postgres psql -U indic8_user -d indic8_db

Restoring a backup will overwrite existing tables in the destination database. Always create a safety snapshot before performing a restore.