[SAC] Backups - Especially osgeo1 Mysql for Drupal

[Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)]

Thanks a lot for digging into it Frank!

I'll be back in the office chair on the 3rd.

Tyler

On 29-Dec-07, at 4:44 PM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:

> Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote:
>> On 12-Dec-07, at 7:25 AM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>>> It is a bit hard to figure out what is what with regard to  
>>> backups, so I have
>>> taken the liberty of extracting the backup portion out of the  
>>> Migration
>>> Documentation wiki page Shawn wrote, and setting it up as  
>>> SAC:Backups:
>>>
>>>   http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/SAC:Backups
>> I added a section on that page for listing the folders to be  
>> backed up.  Also I opened a new ticket to trac our discussion  
>> about defining the backup locations/folders for PEER1.
>> http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/179
>
> Tyler,
>
> I've noted that on osgeo1 we should at least backup:
>
> # /etc - 10MB
> # /var/www/trac - 550MB
> # /root - 3MB
> # /var/lib/mailman/lists - 36MB
>
> We really do want to backup /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/ 
> *.mbox but
> I'm not sure how easy that is to specify.  We don't really want all  
> the
> htmlified archives also under /var/lib/mailman/archives as this is  
> a great
> deal of additional bulk, and scanning all these tiny files is  
> likely to be
> painful from a system load point of view.
>
> Actually, it looks like /home/back/mailman/archives is what we want  
> for
> mailman configuration, but it does not appear to be getting  
> updated.  All
> the mbox files date from early 2007 or 2006.  I'll look into this a  
> bit.
>
> Howard has indicated that the svn mirroring should be sufficient for
> those purposes.
>
> I looked in /var/www/html and there is a whack of stuff I don't  
> think we
> need to backup (ie. all the fdo and mapguide docs).  On the other hand
> there is likely stuff there that should be backed up.  I'm not sure  
> how
> we want to handle this.
>
> Boy, /home/back is a mess.  I'll dig some more.
>
> Best regards,
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Tyler Mitchell
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