[FM Discuss] disaster strikes: fi.flossmanuals.net offline...

[Tomi Toivio]

Thanks for this information! We were thinking we have to add some kind of a
backup system when we update the whole Finnish FM to the new version of
Booki next month!

2011/7/29 Daniel James <daniel.james at sourcefabric.org>

> Hi Tomi,
>
> > I was actually thinking for approximately two seconds that we have been
> > hacked or that somebody has been adding highly illegal content to Booki.
> > Actually both of these scenarios are something that should be thought
> about.
>
> You need daily, incremental backups so you can roll back any number of
> days required. It really depends how long it will take for someone to
> notice the damage. If it's well-hidden vandalism it might take some
> while to discover. So I backup off-site daily, and delete the backups
> when they reach 12 weeks old (otherwise I would run out of disk space).
>
> > I was looking at an FM backup I made some months ago with wget, but it
> > seems like wget really doesn't get it in a very useful format. It would
> > be a horribly time-consuming task to restore the wiki from that.
>
> I suggest rdiff-backup, for example like this:
>
> http://arctic.org/~dean/rdiff-backup/unattended.html
>
> The above is a quite complicated how-to, but it's a really powerful
> method. You can back up large servers over a modest Internet connection.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Daniel
>



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Tomi Toivio
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