[Shiunbird]

Daily backups then? Do you use any backup software or just tar gz from the command prompt? Where I work, we backup the entire enterprise once per hour during the workday, and then another full backup at midnight.

Hi Vishnu,

We rsync over every day at 4 am UTC minute 14. I snapshot the folder every day for a month, and then once per week for 6 months. (ZFS)
That folder is replicated to another server here at my place and once per day it is locally encrypted and sent to Amazon Glacier.

I am in process of removing the Amazon component of my life and will set up another server at a friend's place 100km from here. He is fully running on solar energy and has a rack in his air conditioned attic. Unfortunately, he only has 5G, so he can't provide more services.

I realised that I had not checked if everything is running fine for a couple of months and had a quick look. It is all good. No crazy acrobatics here, it is just a one-line command called by cron and if there are any issues, I get an email.

edit: If I recall correctly (Raion correct me if I am wrong), we agreed on once a day to keep the load low.

edit 2: I think we've never finished configuring the database backups, but all posts, attachments, web application, etc, usr and var folders are here.