On Sun, 2010-05-23 at 15:55 +0200, Loic Dachary wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > I've setup a rsnapshot that will backup daily petzi.fsffrance.org, the > host on which lisa / bart are running. If it proves stable, it could > replace the current maggie backups. The main advantage is that the > actual system is backup instead of selected files. I've often found > difficult to restore backups that require to reconstruct a working > environment.
I second that, when it's possible, it's much better to backup mostly blindly. I personnally backup whole domUs without transient data (log, tmp, etc) in order to restore them easily. It still needs a bit of intelligence (dump SQLs, manage those zillion noSQL thingies, etc) but it's simple and efficient. The rsync-based custom script on Maggie was initially meant to only capture what was essential user data because ressources (bandwidth and disk space) were a bit scarce. That's mainly not true nowadays (though a 4TB filer smoked last week and thus problems scale too...). _______________________________________________ Project mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/project
