[Deskaheh-sysadmin] More about backup of Hamilton

[pabs]

On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 13:07 -0500, john milton wrote:

> I don't know if he is reading this message, cause last I heard
> ski at inymedia.org was being served through Deskaheh, which is more or
> less down now, but it's all I have to work with.

This was recently changed to forward to another address, so he should be
at least receiving the mails. 

> Would anyone who knows anything about the backup process for Hamilton, 
> or anyone who would be able to help us by providing help with this 
> please respond to this message?
> We would be willing to do this ourselves, but do not have the necessary 
> access, and would need a quick training. (I am assuming it reqires an 
> ftp of the Dada and MYSql dirs for Hamilton)

I found that one of the standard dada cron jobs is to dump the database
to a file (cron.daily/mysqlbackup.php).

-bash-2.05b$ ls -l `locate _dump.sql.gz`
 1187938 Jan 30 00:01 bigmuddyimc_dump.sql.gz
     109 Sep  1 01:30 hamiltondada_dump.sql.gz
17704409 Jan 30 00:02 nzdada_dump.sql.gz

Looks like the last backup was September 1 2004, and it is very small,
not even a real backup. I have no experience with dada, perhaps finn can
tell you how to turn this on. Once it is being dumped, off-site backups
would be a simple rsync/wget away.

I also note that dada has a push_to_remote.php script, but I think maybe
that is for images.indymedia.org/paranode. Any comments on this finn?

-- 
bye,
pabs

http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Main/PaulWise
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