Shouldn’t we make a Z back-up every three months?

Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Wed May 07, 2003 4:56 pm

Shouldn’t we make a Z back-up every three months?

I don’t mean for John to do this cos he does more than enough for this forum. I mean to do it ourselves, just in case something happens. Our last experience could have been disastrous...

We really should start thinking of a regular back-up schedule cos Planet Z has become an incredible amount of extremely relevant information to Creamware users, not found anywhere else, but here, in Planet Z.

spoimala · Post by **spoimala** » Thu May 08, 2003 1:43 am

yeah, indeed. But the question is: how.

Spirit · Post by **Spirit** » Thu May 08, 2003 3:03 am

Anyone know how big the site is just counting the text (no music, files, presets etc) ?

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Thu May 08, 2003 4:23 am

the pages of the site are generated dynamically from a mysql-database.
You can't backup that externally as a 'user'

Imho the backup of the raw data isn't a big deal, but the transfer to another server with all the routing and admin stuff recently was the main problem.
John does a great Job on this for that relatively small amount he demands for server maintainance.

cheers, Tom

Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Sun May 11, 2003 2:28 am

I've heard of some programs that would download everything to work off like... Don't remember the name... something like "Off Line Eterprice" I think.

Post by **garyb** » Sun May 11, 2003 3:06 am

i think this one's under control.

ChrisWerner · Post by **ChrisWerner** » Sun May 11, 2003 3:44 am

Gary is right, a firm wich sells space or web servers has the duty to backup all files frequently,or? They get much problems when something happen to their computers.

John Cooper · Post by **John Cooper** » Mon May 12, 2003 12:13 am

Sorry I didn't see this thread earlier.

I back up the forum database every night. It's one big Mysql database. The file is 50mb or so (if I remember correctly). I do not backup all the mp3's and devices, etc, as those amount to *gigabytes*.

The backup files are currently stored on the same server as the webhost. At one time, I used to FTP them nightly to another server, but no longer have a place to FTP them to.

The webhost server itself is a dual physical RAID system, so it's pretty safe. The only issue would be if a hurricane (etc) kills the server - it's in florida!

So, a new place to ftp the files? Volunteers? (It needs to be an always-on server, so I can automate the ftp move in a nightly cron-job).

-John

Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Thu May 15, 2003 4:54 pm

I’m surprised you back up the forum “every single night”. You really take it seriously John! :0

I’m sorry not having web space myself.

So… we generate 50mb per day? (!)

John Cooper · Post by **John Cooper** » Thu May 15, 2003 9:27 pm

No, it's not 50 new MB per day. The total file size is actually about 30mb. That's the entire database, of all posts/topics/users, etc.

And the file gets a little bit bigger every day.

Compressed, the backup file is only about 10mb.

-John