RE: So I guess the .com is down again...
May 30, 2013 at 5:22 pm
(This post was last modified: May 30, 2013 at 5:25 pm by Tiberius.)
(May 30, 2013 at 5:11 pm)pocaracas Wrote: Tib, how are your backups?Every morning (when the forums are least active) the database gets backed up, zipped up, and sent to an external backup server (also stored locally, but that doesn't help if the hard drive crashes).
I keep the last 30 days of backups on the external backup server, and 90 days locally (the local server has way more space).
Also, every week the actual forum files are backed up (using the same process). The files don't change that often, hence why they aren't backed up every day.
I also back up all the server configuration files on a weekly basis too. The idea is, if the hard drive does become corrupted, I can install everything and just use the backed up config files, which saves a heck of a lot of time.
Edit: Oh yeah, and the last database backup file was 140MB...compressed with the highest compression in 7zip.
I don't want to know what size it extracts to...
