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View Poll Results: How often do you backup your site and or dedicated server? | |||
Every 6 hours |
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0 | 0% |
Every 12 hours |
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1 | 1.22% |
Every day |
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26 | 31.71% |
Once a week |
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8 | 9.76% |
Once a month |
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6 | 7.32% |
Every so often |
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18 | 21.95% |
Other time schedule |
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2 | 2.44% |
Never |
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21 | 25.61% |
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#16 |
Join Date: Aug 1998
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
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AND if I could respectfully suggest based on an email I just received from a third party:
Raid/Mirror on a server/machine connected to the net can be hacked and the drive nuked. Tape in a secure location is better. |
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Location: Brisbane, Australia
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#18 |
Join Date: Aug 1998
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
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![]() Merry xmas ![]() Yep, I'm very sure that this procedure should never be done. This issue brought tears to my eyes. One of THE very very best sites in it's space. With an outstanding BB that we all loved. A name you will certainly recognize as it's our very own "Arie" Read it here: http://www.infinisource.com/features/hacked.html Tape or another data center/Host is the only way to go. Preferably behind a firewall. If all else fails a regular download to your local machine which is not connected to the net or sits behind a real firewall. Buy his stuff and help the cause at: http://www.rosecitysoftware.com/ He may need some help bringing his BB up <wink> so your outstanding expertise in this area will certianly be helpfull. Last edited by Steve_S; 12-25-2001 at 08:34 PM. |
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Arie told me about that unfortunate incident
![]() so they got in through wu-ftp security bug and not the raid itself
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#20 |
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Location: Beautiful Darwin
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Yesterday,
All those backups seemed a waste of pay. Now my database has gone away. Oh, I believe in yesterday. Suddenly, There's not half the files there used to be. There's a deadline hanging over me. The system crashed so suddenly. I pushed something wrong. What it was I could not say. Now- all my data's gone And I long for yesterday-ay-ay-ay... Yesterday, The need for backups seemed so far away. I knew my data was all here to stay. Now I believe in yesterday... ![]()
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#21 |
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Batcave
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Every day - all data is a good idea
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Right. RAID just makes a real-time copy of the hard drive. If the files on the hard drive get deleted/corrupted, the RAID copy likewise gets deleted/corrupted.
I use a daily cron job that runs rsync (http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/) to synchronize the files on a remote server. This is an incremental backup, so I could recreate the state of the hard disk for any day up to 7 days ago. The backup server has access to read the main server and no more. The main server has no access to the backup server. It actually came in handy when the disk on my RackShack AMD Duron got corrupted just last Sunday, and their techs claimed that they could do nothing except restore the hard drive. I had a 20 hour old backup and managed to get my sites up and running in a few hours using the backup (after my hardware was operational again). It was a bit of a pain to restore things because my backup only backed up data, not software (which I had to reinstall). If I had configured the backup to also get the software that I installed, it could have been a near-instantaneous restore. (Hmm, I could have found the files for all the software by doing a "find /" based on date.) Last edited by demae; 01-24-2002 at 04:58 PM. |
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Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Wales, UK
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I've never backed up my server, even when upgrading stuff like forums and news system's.
I would backup my server if I could find a program that would do it all for me, say every 24 hours. |
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Location: Charlotte, NC
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And you can actually use crontabs to automatically backup your servers. I'm not an expert on that, but if you do a search, you'll likely find a tutorial. |
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Join Date: Aug 1998
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If you need a shell script to BU your MySQL database which works very well and runs via a crontab see Tip 1 on:
http://www.geekvillage.com/vbulletin_review.htm It has lot's of options and is rock solid. You may have to tweak the code a bit to make it work. HTH |
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#28 |
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Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: New Delhi, India
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How about backing up the entire site and FTP'ing it. Is this possible automatically? Right now I have to do this manually everytime.
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#29 |
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Batcave
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I backup my servers onsite and offsite each day
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#30 |
Join Date: Aug 1998
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
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Amen !
"Better safe than sorry" Unfortunetly, hard drives don't page you or send you a nice email when they are failing. ![]() |
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