[SAC] rsync backups for download.osgeo.org

[Alex Mandel]

On 11/26/2010 11:35 PM, Markus Neteler wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com> wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>> Martin pointed out that the download.osgeo.org rsync backups have not been
>> running (for some time!).  I have fixed download.osgeo.org so that rsyncd
>> is started from inetd and reenabled rsyncing from download.osgeo.org to
>> backup.osgeo.org again.
> 
> Thanks for your efforts.
> 
>> I'll try to check in that things are working smoothly in a few days.
>>
>> Martin and I also briefly discussed what else is, or is not, getting
>> backed up on the new VMs and I think there are likely some holes.  I think
>> he may follow up on some of those points but folks responsible for services
>> on the new VM might want to confirm that everything they need is getting
>> backed up in a way that we could recover fairly quickly if necessary.
> 
> The backup of the "project" VM is quite important. Is there anything
> known about that (and/or an updated Wiki page describing the state
> of the art)?
> 
> thanks
> Markus

Well there are 2 distinct steps.
1. a project needs to dump it's files/databases/configurations somewhere
easy to find and in an efficient format.
2. we need to configure a way to pull those to the Backup machine, most
likely using Bacula, but possibly just relying on rysnc

For step one I think a convention of /backup/projectname should make it
easy for us to sort through and grab backups with bacula.

Does that work well for others?

Thanks,
Alex