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Old Feb 19, 2008, 11:23 AM
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Originally Posted by Gigablah View Post
I was planning on posting this later, but currently I have it set up so that a nightly cron job synchronizes the scan directories to my Dreamhost account (using rsync), along with the daily mysql database dump (I'll probably retain daily db backups as long as a week). This means we have four copies of the scans and database, since both ServInt and Dreamhost have their own backup systems. Deletions aren't propagated to the backup host either, so we can fall back on that if, say, someone deletes a rare scan.
That sounds airtight to me. I need to figure out how to use cron jobs on my own server, since currently I just manually backup my data.
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