Ctlee requested some sort of backup system on Mother. I have been playing with rsync as described here, and will be implementing it on Mother once I figure out how to make (automatically!) the following snapshots of the /home directory:-
- six rotating snapshots, every four hours
- seven rotating snapshots, every day
- four rotating snapshots, every week
- monthly snapshots
The beauty of this scheme is that it uses Unix hard links (not available on Microsoft Windows!) so the same files in different snapshots are only stored once. This saves tons of space. It will also be run from Marilyn my home server, which means that even if Al Quada completely destroys Warwick House where Mother is housed in, all files as new as a few hours old are still intact on Marilyn’s RAID and good for recovery.
Shouldn’t be too long now.
Also putting together setup for individual apache instances, which solves the security problem of server-side scripts (i.e. reading everybody else’s scripts and data files). Cool.