Artifactory S3 backup strategies?

If you’re using Artifactory with S3 for binary storage, you can use Amazon’s optional S3 versioning service to safely backup and restore your binaries. You can do this by using a binary log (binlog) to keep a record of previously deployed binaries and their paths, and correlating them with the checksum-based filestore residing in your S3 bucket.

Additionally, you can take time-based snapshots or perform regularly-timed db dumps of your database (we recommend invoking a backup run several times a day and retaining those on a weekly rotation). This way, should the need arise, you’ll be able to check previous backups of your database and, once again, associate any binaries via their path(s) and/or checksum(s) stored in the database.

Another option is synching file deltas between two buckets, each in a different region. If an Amazon region/site is unavailable, you can then switch over to the Artifactory S3 Object Storage endpoint.