Nonsense and other useful things

After being constantly on since april 2002, it is time that the current Pentium III server is replaced. It is making a lot of noise and sooner or later, I expect it to stop working anyway. Also, the storage is approaching its 200GB limit so it is time for a change. Now, for the past days I have been googling like an idiot for days figuring out exactly what I need and where to order it.

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From now on the backups of the server are fully functional.

Hardware failures

To guard against hardware failures, I use mirroring on the server now
with two disks and have third disk for backup. Every week or so one
disk is removed from the array and replaced by the free disk. This way,
I have a complete server backup.

Accidents/software failures

To guard against software failures and ‘accidents’ (accidentally
removing files e.g.) I have implemented backups of the  server of
parts of the directory structure. I use the ‘dar’ program for that.
Every month, a full backup is made, and then every day of the month, an
incremental backup is made (if no full backup was made). The backups
are stored on the hard disk of the server. Of course, the mambo
installation, configuration, and mysql databases for mambo are backed
up. Mysql is backed up by first creating a database dump using
mysqldump and then backing up the snapshot using the regular procedure.

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