A few weeks ago I was lauding the importance of offsite backup and somebody asked me if we backup the Puritanboard. I do. I actually have a daily, weekly, and monthly backup of a number of sites on the server. The files (including all the information needed to rebuild accounts and db's) is stored in a file structure on the server.
That's good but if the machine ever crashed we'd be in trouble if I didn't do more. Thus, I pay for about 30 GB of space to backup the backup.
In order to do this I use the rsync protocol using a command line. I'm not terribly linux smart so I've copied some command line examples.
Well, I figured out two days ago that I had been doing this "offsite method" for over a year and the command line was simply backing up the sites to another part on the same server. The last successful offline backup had been Jan 2008!
Well, the good news is that I fixed the rsync line and it's backing up offsite again. I'm certainly happy to have learned this lesson the easy way. Can you imagine losing almost a a year of posts?!
That's good but if the machine ever crashed we'd be in trouble if I didn't do more. Thus, I pay for about 30 GB of space to backup the backup.
In order to do this I use the rsync protocol using a command line. I'm not terribly linux smart so I've copied some command line examples.
Well, I figured out two days ago that I had been doing this "offsite method" for over a year and the command line was simply backing up the sites to another part on the same server. The last successful offline backup had been Jan 2008!
Well, the good news is that I fixed the rsync line and it's backing up offsite again. I'm certainly happy to have learned this lesson the easy way. Can you imagine losing almost a a year of posts?!