Re: Daily backups ?

[Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>]

--- Youcef Rabah Rahal <rahal at arabeyes dot org> wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 January 2004 22:42, Nadim Shaikli wrote:
> > Per the 'core' meeting - I would like to start a thread on generating
> > daily (or nightly) backups.  I believe they are currently being done
> > weekly (which doesn't sit well with me).  We also need to possible
> > 'scp' the backup files somewhere off-site (in case of total calamity)
> > every so often (post encrypting the data since passwords and sensitive
> > info will be included).
> 
> I suggest rdiff-backup (http://rdiff-backup.stanford.edu/) which is a python 
> script (!) and uses rsync. There are many advantages to prefer it to the 
> simple rsync.

Anything as long as they are done daily/nightly even if it's via python ;-)

> Concerning the sensitive data, we should dress a list where these data
> are located and make some script that processes these files, removes
> (or encrypts ?) the sensitive data before backing it up. For example
> the www/arabeyees.php and all the admin scripts that use MySQL and which
> contain the Arabeyes MySQL username/pass.

It would be far simpler to,

 - tar cvf backup_20040201.tar .
 - gzip/bzip2 backup_20040201.tar
 - gpg -encrypt backup_20040201.tar.bz2

then to go fish and exclude files selectively (or encrypt 'em) stand-alone.

Just a suggestion; whatever works and gets done the soonest.

Eid Mubarak to all.

 - Nadim


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