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If you use elastic block storage in the cloud, many times they will let you do snapshots and backups of that.

If you can't do that, make a script to make a .tgz backup and have cron do it every day and copy it up to an s3 bucket. Have the s3 bucket configured to delete items that are over a certain age.

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But what you need to consider often is, having a consistent state in those snapshots, this can be a nasty thing for examble with all sorts of databases or configuration as database (boltdb, sqlite,...)

Turning on WAL for SQLite mitigates most concerns with inconsistent block storage state.

Yes, but i meant in general, idk if ALL those systems support wal archiving.

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