Backing up something you built yourself

You want the project in at least two places that fail for different reasons, and the database backed up separately, because code and data are lost in completely different ways. The one thing that should never travel with either is your secrets.

What actually gets lost

Rarely a hard drive. Usually an account: a free tier ending, a card expiring, a platform closing, or a login nobody can recover. A backup that lives inside the same account as the original is not a backup, it is a second copy of the same risk.

The arrangement worth having

• The working copy, on your computer.
• A copy somewhere else that you control, on a different account.
• The database exported on its own schedule, because it changes constantly and the code does not.
• Secrets in none of the above. Keep them where they belong and never in a file that gets copied.

How Ura handles it

Signing in turns on an encrypted copy of your projects in Ura's own cloud, so the work follows you to any computer. The local copy stays the real one. Values from your environment file never travel, because a secret backed up everywhere has stopped being a secret.