blackvoid Disaster recovery using Snapshot & Replication (Bitwarden scenario using Docker)

About a year ago, I have written an article on one of Synology's great apps, the Snapshot and Replication tool.

DR - disaster recovery
SR - Snapshot and Replication
BW - BitWarden

In this article, I would like to focus on a specific disaster (DR) test when it comes to using the SR tool, recovering your BitWarden server running in Docker.

Any service that is important for you or your business needs to have the maximum uptime possible, but from time to time there might be problems that will prevent you to use that service. If that problem as a result will prevent you from using that service how it is currently configured, you might have to do a DR switch.

If you are hosting your own BW platform for yourself, your business, or maybe hosting it for a 3rd party, you will need to make sure that access to that service is always accessible with minimum or no downtime at all. If for whatever reason you do get in a situation that you need to perform a DR switch, you will have to be ready for it upfront.

Continue reading...