Drush-Based Backup Plan
This wiki page will document the design, missing features and implementation plan of a backup plan for Floss-Pa's site based on Drush. Feel free to contribute by adding missing steps, better implementation details or by contributing with code.
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Offsite Backups
It is required to have backups in at least two more (physically) different places. Current list of volunteers to store offline backups are:
Ofssite Backups Plans
Rsync backups folder
In this schema, every volunteer will set up a cron script to run rsync on the backups folder. The location of the backup folder information and credential information will be provided by the admins of the site.
Pros
- rsync would already know what's the latest backup to download based on the changes
- rsync would automatically deal with removal of old backup files that were previously removed from the server
Cons
- There are security considerations to take care of, since volunteers will have access to an account at Floss-Pa's server, which would probably be a dedicated backup account
SCP latest backup
In this schema, every volunteer will set up a cron script to list latest backup file and copy it from Floss-Pa's server to their own server.
Pros
Cons
- Same security considerations of rsync
- All date-related handling like removing old backups and determining which is the latest backup will be done by the script
