[pmwiki-users] Re: On Backups
chr at home.se
chr at home.se
Wed Dec 14 13:18:52 CST 2005
On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Ben Wilson wrote:
>
> I read the digest, so this is the fastest way for me to comment--start a
> new thread.
I think that's a good way :-)
> Since I have access to the server via ssh and have cron capability, I
> have a shell script that tars my wiki.d and whatever other critical
> directories I may need (including my pmwiki-farm, which holds all my
> wikifarm related stuff outside the web path).
I do something similar, although the whole think is first rsnapshot:ed
before it's tar:ed together.
> Since I have access to more than one server, each one pulls over the
> other's tarball so if any one server fails, I can get back in operation
> in short order.
Same here... encryption of the archive followed by it being copied to a
different machine. A bit of brute force really since it's essentially a
complete backup each time.
> That is:
>
> One Cron to tar them all, One Cron to find them,
> One Cron to pull them all and in the darkness archive them
> In the Land of PmWiki where the Shadows lie.
>
> (Apologies to Mr. Tolkien)
>
> Regards,
> Ben
*LOL*
/Christian
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Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
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