Automated Nightly Backups

[PX]Kal Bob · Post by **[PX]Kal Bob** » Sat Feb 21, 2004 10:46 am

Hey Hey, I have finaly gotten around to programing a Shell script to preform a Automated Nightly Backup of all kalnet databases. I am going to impliment this after the Reading Week upgrades to Romulus.

Watch for notification in the News Forum, for the activation of this feature.
Special Thanks to the The JEW, and Ironfist for remined me to finish this.

[PX]IronFist · Post by **[PX]IronFist** » Sun Feb 22, 2004 11:20 pm

Good to see this up and running, hopefully this will protect against any nasty crashes in the future.

[PX] Nebuchadnezzar · Mon Feb 23, 2004 10:20 am

or rampart deletions by crazed mods.

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Fri Feb 27, 2004 3:06 am

One of your best board ideas ever.

[PX]Kal Bob · Post by **[PX]Kal Bob** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 6:10 pm

This has now been fully implimented. Backup's are made nightly at 2:30 am.

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 10:13 pm

Ah, the yearly implementation.

[PX] Nebuchadnezzar · Post by **[PX] Nebuchadnezzar** » Fri Jan 28, 2005 6:17 am

it wasn't quite a year

Private Name · Post by **Private Name** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 4:08 pm

dude maybe you could help bo get back the matt n bo message board then he fubared it up last night.

[PX]Kal Bob · Post by **[PX]Kal Bob** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 6:14 pm

Not really related to the database, also it is all fixed now

[PX]Kal Bob · Post by **[PX]Kal Bob** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 7:31 pm

Sorry it just dawned on me that I did not anwser your question lol.
Yes your database is backed up nightly, as are all databases on the server.

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 12:02 pm

As we're coming up on the 3rd year anniversary of this (ie. when hard drives in a server environment usually die according to Google), are the backups also being made to a separate hard drive apart from the board? Ie. is there a backup-backup copy on a newer harddrive? Is there only one backup copy?

As I understand it, the backups are pretty small. Perhaps send out a quarterly backup to the mods? In a worst case scenario, if everything goes to h3ll at root's end, at least a couple people still have the majority of the board.

If the backups are available off the file server, just tell me and I'll grab a copy from there. Thanks.