Does anyone else use Sunday for backups?
 

It gets mentioned every once in awhile, but I bet there are quite a few of you who haven't backed up for weeks if not months.
It's nothing to get a back up system in place... then maybe 10 minutes Sunday morning, and let it do its thing.

Recommend to set up and run Before NFL, Nascar, NBA, MLB, NCAA or anything else interesting on Sunday. |pimpin

I usually do mine at night before I go to bed. Haven't done it in a few weeks though, looks like tonight is the night.

i usually do my back up every end of the month and that will be tonight.:)

Purchase an external drive and some cheap backup software. I have mine run at 2:00 AM every morning. If I'm still working it's a good reminded to sleep.

The cost of an external drive is very little these days and some even come with backup software installed.

I usually back up on Tuesday's but I'm starting to like the Sunday thing :)

I think today seems like a good sunday for backing up. Especially after my computer was making some weird noises last night. :)

My laptop nightly providing I remember to plugin and turn on the FireWire drive.

For my web servers I do a MySQL dump into my home directory and then tar my home directory and download it to another local FireWire drive once a month.

For FoxyAngel I did all mirrored RAIDs since it was too many gigs to have manageable regular backups. The amount of data will soon exceed a terabit of data.

Except that raid does nothing if some wayward soul types rm -rf in your root directory. Or overwrites all of your html files with portugese statements regarding the honor of black-hat hackers.

I'm sorry I wasn't clear what we had raided. Not the server for FoxyAngel but the owners personal computer for FoxyAngel Angel herself. Angel does all the editing of the content, both video and pics, and gives each week's updates to Luna for her to do the html and place them on the server. Angel has the raw content going all the way back to the beginning over five years ago and wants it available to her while creating new stuff.

Personally I would like to also have it also at another location on another drive but at least it is safe from drive failure. It around 750 gigs now on 3 raids. It is increasing by about 100 gigs each month.

But as to the server. It is a bit over 26 gigs now which is too much for monthly downloads so I did download everything once, untared it to a FireWire drive, then each week when Luna updates the server she also updates the mirror that is keep locally at her place. M3 also does weekly versioned backups.

I have a bunch of NasLite boxes(about 1tB each) that I dump stuff to all the time. For a couple hundred bucks each, they make great nearline storage.

Plus I have a removable HD tray, so I just dump stuff to the drive and popin another big drive as needed.

What is a NasLite box?

When ever I think of making backups, I don't have 2 hours to set aside for the backups. It takes about 2 hours for site backups, I'm not sure how long it would take to backup the content :(
But I have to do it soon since it was at least a month ago since last time.

25 lines of perl.
15 domains.
11 commands.
10 tar files.
3 ftp clicks.
ftp to my box.
Get it?
I don't care how many domains you have, you should be able to run this while making toast.
The download will take time, duh, it's Sunday. It's March Madness, NBA, Nascar getting underway and NHL, well ok, Nascar is getting underway!

I am the worst and hardly even back up my Laptop. In fact I will do it tonight. :D

Our servers each have differant days depending on the space used on the hard drives.

Basically it is a floppy booted network appliance. You can take an old 200mHz computer and throw 4 big hard drives in it and use it as a file server. So I recyle old systems that my clients are throwing out, and turn them into huge file servers for the price of a few big hard drives.

From the site:
"NASLite is a collection of single floppy disk based Network Attached Storage (NAS) Server Operating Systems designed to transform a basic computer into a dedicated file server."

Read about here:
http://www.serverelements.com/naslite.php

I have a new project, I have a new project... nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, na.... :)