Backups of the live site (moved)

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Revision as of 17:19, 27 January 2012 by imported>Paulproteus

This is a page about improving or modifying OpenHatch.

We call that "Hacking OpenHatch," and there is a whole category of pages about that.


The OpenHatch site requires the following things to keep working:

  • Our database, which gets mysqldump'd into /var/backups/mysql/
  • The files in /home/deploy/
  • Configuration files in /etc
  • /root/ which contains a few scripts useful for maintaining the server

We have a free, donated account from rsync.net that lets us store 50GB of data there.

We use duplicity (as per the rsync.net official document

We snapshot the contents once daily.