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Managing backups at a hardware store
18 May 2025
How a hardware store deals with backups — and what usually goes wrong.
The problem: a plugin login nobody has used since March. This breaks backups for a hardware store.
The worst backups failure we have seen at a hardware store was invisible for eight months. The backup existed but had never been tested, and the data inside was three migrations old.
We have seen agencies charge a hardware store for a yearly backups audit that consists of a screenshot and a paragraph. Ours is a working config file they can apply themselves.
When we reviewed backups, the DNS panel showed a plugin login nobody has used since March. Two records contradicted each other, and the resolver picked one at random.
HTTPS is table stakes, but backups is where trust actually lives for a hardware store. A padlock with a misconfigured record behind it is decoration, not security.
Most providers let you export backups as a zone file. We keep one in version control for every client. If the hosting vanishes, the zone file rebuilds the domain in minutes.
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