Backups? What backups?

Papa Dragon

Sun, 10 Apr 2022 02:40:20 +0200 de CaseLibre

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Great day, the automated install script I've been working on recently was merged in the dev branch of the Streams repository.The few tests I've made both with Nginx & Apache were successful, so feel free to give it a try, folks. In the whiptail dialogs interface that can be used, there's only one thing I have not worked on: the external USB drive backup. If you need it, you can still run the script using a manually edited config file where this backup option is available.

Among the many necessary or possible improvements to the .easyinstall folder (it's not .homeinstall anymore) that I plan to spend some time on, is the issue of backups. Personally, I'm running in "mad dog" mode, since I don't use a backup system for my Zap server. As this is a single-user server, which is mainly used as a long-term test machine, on which I don't really store vital or sensitive information, I don't really worry about this issue. But I know I should. And I think I will.

I would be interested to know if the Streams/Zap & family/Streams admins have set up backup systems, and if so which solutions they have chosen to use. The idea would be to be able to add (those for which it is possible) to the features of the install script. The solution currently available sounds fine for a small server at home. It is for the case where you host your site on a remote server that there is surely something to do.

So, people...

How do you do that? Or how would you do that?

Scott M. Stolz

Tue, 28 Jun 2022 01:14:38 +0200 de hubzilla

Some web hosting companies will make backups and restore them for you so you don't have to mess with the technical stuff. Depending on the price and type of web hosting plan, this is either included or an extra fee.

On web hosts that will restore backups for you, restoring your website is just a support ticket away, assuming you didn't wait too long (since they rotate backups).

Another option is to use hosting with a control panel, such as WHM/cPanel. It has built-in support for backups & restores with a simple user interface.

So there are options for less technical people.

But nomadic identity gives you more flexibility since you can actually move your identity to another domain name and server and not lose anything. It's not the same as a web hosting account backup though. It's a backup for your social identity.