I hadn't heard of the backup providers mentioned in the article. Does anyone have experience with those or with other recommended solutions?
I can re-implement the infrastructure of my VMs fairly easily (thank you Ansible), but backing up content outside of the provider's built-in options is something I haven't played with yet, and would obviously be the crucial piece.
We use Backupninja to drive backups, mostly Duplicity against S3. Some things, like Postgres dumps, are custom commands that just upload individual files to S3. The reason you want to wrap things in Backupninja is to centralize logging, scheduling and monitoring.
Note that we only back up specific things like databases, logs (central syslog server) and data directories. We use Puppet to configure our boxes, and consider everything to be expendable that isn't data.
I can re-implement the infrastructure of my VMs fairly easily (thank you Ansible), but backing up content outside of the provider's built-in options is something I haven't played with yet, and would obviously be the crucial piece.