Backup security / reliability
char-perc
PROOP

a month ago

Hi all,

Enquiring about how Railway handles built-in volume backups of Postgres.

Where are the backups stored? What's the data reliability of them? Are they put on bucket storage, like S3 or R2? Is it protected with parity like RAID?

Thanks

Solved$20 Bounty

Pinned Solution

If you wish to understand how the backups are done, you can upgrade to the enterprise plan.

Otherwise, as mentioned above, backups and volumes won't be deleted at any time as long as you have an active plan. Internal infrastructure will not be discussed publicly.

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Railway
BOT

a month ago

Volume backups support manual and scheduled (daily/weekly/monthly) creation with full restore capability, and on Pro, automatic backups are also created before image auto-updates. We don't publicly document the specific storage backend or redundancy details (e.g. whether backups land on S3, R2, or what parity scheme is used), so we can't share those specifics here. The backups reference covers what's available from a feature standpoint.


Status changed to Awaiting User Response Railway about 1 month ago


char-perc
PROOP

a month ago

Can those specifics be shared?


Status changed to Awaiting Railway Response Railway about 1 month ago


Railway
BOT

a month ago

We don't disclose the specifics of our backup storage infrastructure publicly. The backups reference covers everything we document about the feature, including creation, scheduling, restore, and size limits.


Status changed to Awaiting User Response Railway about 1 month ago


char-perc
PROOP

a month ago

Can I have a member of the community or moderator reply?


Status changed to Awaiting Railway Response Railway about 1 month ago


Railway
BOT

a month ago

This thread has been opened as a bounty so the community can help solve it.

Status changed to Open Railway about 1 month ago


As the bot mentioned, the specifics of Railway's infrastructure won't be disclosed publicly.


char-perc
PROOP

a month ago

So I can assume that backups and volumes could be lost/deleted at any time then? We need some sort of assurance that your backup solution is thorough enough for enterprise workloads.


Backups and volumes won't be lost or deleted at any time.


char-perc
PROOP

a month ago

How is this assured? Unfortunately, you can't just say "we do backups" to clients. They want technical explanations on how their data is secured against data loss.


If you wish to understand how the backups are done, you can upgrade to the enterprise plan.

Otherwise, as mentioned above, backups and volumes won't be deleted at any time as long as you have an active plan. Internal infrastructure will not be discussed publicly.


Status changed to Solved 0x5b62656e5d 7 days ago


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