The Back-up Conundrum
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I periodically back-up the entire contents of my web server to a local volume. I haven’t automated this yet (although a bit of AppleScript ought to do it) and it bothers me that my last complete back-up is only as good as my ability to remember to do it.
There’s another layer of data safety that needs to be considered when using any content management system (such as Movable Type) and that is preserving the content database in the event of corruption or spontaneous combustion. Based on a tip in the MT support forum, I created a template that exports the contents of the MT database on post of an entry or comment. This way, should the database ever get nuked, I should be able to simply import this text file back into MT to restore all entries and comments.
Now Antipixel is not exactly Slashdot, so there’s not a great deal of material and database I/O to worry about. I don’t expect writing this text file each time a post is made will slow things down too much, but do let me know if things seem sluggish.
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Posted to Computers • 2002.05.09 (Thu) • 22:35
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Posted by Mary Beth 2002.05.11, 03:40
You might want to check out SilverKeeper which is a free backing up software from Lacie - works in OS X, works with many external devices (not just Lacie) - I haven’t had much time to play with it but it seems pretty nice for free. http://www.silverkeeper.com
Posted by jh 2002.05.15, 22:58
Locally I’ve been using Chronosync, which does a great job of backing up shuttling files around to various external hard drives and removable media. I’ve created a bunch of ‘backup scripts’ for particular tasks and placed aliases to them in the Apple menu.
http://www.econtechnologies.com/site/chronooverview.htm
I’ve turned off the automatic export of the MT database with each post as it just seems too slow when posting comments and rebuilding indices. I doubt it’s really necessary for me to go so far with little ol’ Antipixel. Manual exports on a semi-regular basis ought to do.
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