Best recommended practices for backing up Atlassian stack (PostgreSQL backend)

[OneTech IT]

I am running JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket and Crowd, all on individual CentOS 7.x servers, with a si ngle unified PostgreSQL 9.6.x on the back end.   All Atlassian versions are on the latest releases.

Is there a set of best practices for backing up each component of the stack, with minimal or no impact to production?

[louisdj]

You can find backup documentation on the Atlassian support website (eg. for Jira: https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver071/backing-up-data-802592964.html)

But TL;DR, make a backup of the database (native) and make backups of the data directory of the application (for Jira and Confluence, I have no experience with Bitbucket).

The timings you have to decide yourself, I would recommend to make them once a day (at night), and to keep at least 7 days or more.

Also, test your backups on frequent basis with a staging environment.