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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.

yeah, indeed. But the question is: how.

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

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

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.

i think this one's under control.

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.

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

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? (!)

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