[BlueOnyx:05565] Re: Backups

[James]

That's pretty much what I follow as well - cmuExports along with sql dumps
and rsyncs.  Gets me everything I need.

James

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> Subject: [BlueOnyx:05559] Re: Backups
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> 
> > Has anyone had any success with anything other than raqbackup?
> 
> I custom wrote a load of backup scripts that use rsync over SSH but
> http://rsnapshot.org/ does exactly the same thing now.  I "backup" just
> under 1TB of data each night and it only pushes files that have
> changed.
> 
> Backing up to a server that can use hardlinks also means I can store
> the
> last 30 days worth or backups without using 30 times the space.
> 
> For some of the BQ specific stuff I run a CMU export but with the -c
> option so that it only exports the XML configuration files...
>    /usr/sbin/cmuExport -c -d /home/nightly-backup/cmu
> ... this means the site setup can easily be restored.
> 
> I also do a mysqldump of each database which can be easily backed up
> and
> restored if needed.
> 
> I hope this helps.
> 
> Dan
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