Add documentation on hourly backups

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+# Hourly Off-site Backups
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+In order to avoid more data loss we implemented hourly off-site backups in [#5150](https://github.com/withspectrum/spectrum/pull/5150). While the implementation is simple, it should cover us well enough.
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+It works by running two cron jobs:
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+1. Runs at 30 minutes past every hour and triggers an "on-demand backup" with our database host (Compose)
+2. Runs at 0 minutes past every hour, fetches the latest "on-demand backup" from our database host and uploads it to our S3 bucket
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+To access the latest hourly backup you can either go to the Compose dashboard (app.compose.com), navigate to the RethinkDB deployment and download the newest on-demand backup, or open our S3 bucket and download the latest one from there.