The Rewind Blog

Stories and ideas about data security and backups.

SPOTLIGHT

6 Reasons Why You Need to Backup Your Ecommerce Store

We compiled the six most common situations in which you’ll be glad you had a backup.

How to Duplicate a Shopify Store in Minutes

Our complete guide to copying a Shopify store to help you manage multiple stores, open a test store, or create a wholesale account.

Simple Caching in AWS Lambda Functions

by Dave North | Jun 12, 2019

We process quite a large amount of webhooks from online SAAS applications at Rewind. Webhooks are triggered for us by the web apps we backup whenever something changes (ie. in a Shopify store, if an item changes we receive a webhook for the item). When we receive the...

Stop Working from Coffee Shops (Without a VPN Connection)

by Megan Smith | Jun 5, 2019

As a backup provider, Rewind understands the value of keeping your data secure as it is the backbone of your business operations. Taking steps to ensure your data is safe while using the Internet is also extremely important! Using a Virtual Personal Network (VPN) can...

How to Protect Your Shopify Store with Automatic Backups – eCommerce Fastlane Podcast

by Megan Smith | May 22, 2019

Mike Potter, CEO and Co-Founder of Rewind, sits down with Steve Hutt from eCommerce Fastlane Podcast about starting an ecommerce store 20 years ago, the data disaster he suffered, and the biggest myth around backups for cloud data. Click here to listen to the podcast....

Ask Me Anything – James Ciesielski, Co-Founder and CTO of Rewind

by Megan Smith | May 14, 2019

Rewind is the leading backup app for platforms such as Shopify, BigCommerce, Quickbooks, Mailchimp, and soon Klaviyo! But how did we get here? Co-founder and CTO, James Ciesielski, sits down to discuss this journey- along with a wide variety of questions we receive...

Adding an HTTP Audit Log to a Ruby Application

by Marc Morinville | Apr 30, 2019

Application logs are awesome. A user just started backing up their store? Nice! Logger.info. An error just happened in the system? Boo! Logger.error. A well-written application-level log can greatly help debug issues and allow you to follow along with what is...

Harnessing The Power of Data… and The Iron Throne

by Daniella Butera | Apr 23, 2019

We’re two weeks away from the most anticipated event of 2019. And no- it’s not another Apple announcement. You guessed it. Winter is HERE ladies and gents. The Game of Thrones Final Season is upon us! And as we prepare for the ultimate song of fire and ice, we bring...

Infrastructure as Code: How Terraform makes it all possible for us

by Dave North | Apr 8, 2019

At Rewind, we’re big believers in the concept of “Infrastructure as Code” and we use a few tools to help us accomplish this. Being a big AWS user, I was very familiar with CloudFormation and joining Rewind, I started to use Terraform as well. I’m often asked the...

How to Back Up Mailchimp (and maybe save your marketing job!)

by Maura Woodman | Mar 26, 2019

This one is for all the Mailchimp users out there. Despite all the social media channels fighting for your ad dollars, good-old email marketing continues to be the most cost-effective way to communicate about your brand and sell your products. Here are some pretty...

Why Am I Getting So Much Web Traffic From Coffeyville? [Solved]

by Henry Brown | Mar 19, 2019

A few months into my new role as Digital Marketing Manager at Rewind, I was digging through our Google Analytics account to prepare some reports. I review some standard signals shortly after month-ends to see if there are any unexpected trends forming that I might...