Hybrid backup pattern

Previously, we have covered a few patterns that discuss how to back up using Amazon provided services, but those patterns assumed that all assets were in Amazon. In real-world situations, it is very rare that all of a team's assets are in a single store such as Amazon.

These transitional and hybrid data centre setups are quite common, but a lot of management headaches come with trying to secure backups on-site. A solution to this that helps to ease the transition and even to ease some backup issues such as continuity and redundancy, is to use a hybrid backup pattern.

This pattern will not be covered in-depth as it is impossible to cover all the edge cases for types of backups as well as ways to ship the data into AWS. One of ...

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