This is a great method that I utilize: http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 9:02 AM, Momesso Andrea <momesso.and...@gmail.com>wrote: > I run on an old laptop a website (Joomla + MediaWiki + Moodle + a couple > of other things). > > The site now is offline and I'm ok with my automated backups of all the > hard drive, but it's going to go online in a few weeks and I'd like to add > some more security. > > What I'd like to have is periodic snapshots of the site, so when the > hardware will fail (I'm pretty sure it will, just a matter of time) I > can easily transfer the latest snapshot on another machine running a web > server and a databse. > > My idea is to cp (or rsync) the /var/www/host/ directory and, at the > same time to mysqldump the related databases. Then I'd create an archive > with this data together and transfer it via nfs on another disk. > Cron will do it every twelve hours. > > Any advice or suggestions will be appreciated. > > =========================== > http://topperh.blogspot.com > =========================== > -- kyle.ba...@gmail.com
