I almost deleted my entire sites...

[Liam W]

I was planning on deleting a backup archive I had made named 'domains.tgz'.

I typed the command, rm -rvf and used tab completion... But I forgot to add the extension. It deleted a significant amount of site content before I hit Ctrl-C (6 times).

I'm just glad it missed the internal_data directory... And that most of the important XF stuff is stored in the database.

(This is just a way of saying that XF Liam will be down for a while while I re-upload all the add-on files...)

Liam

 

[Amin Sabet]

Wow, what a nightmare. Glad you retained your most important stuff!

 

[Martok]

Surely you have regular back-ups and can simply restore the files?

 

[Liam W]

Surely you have regular back-ups and can simply restore the files?

I backup the databases to s3 twice a day, but there is no easy way to automate actual file system backups. At least, not that I know of.

Liam

 

[Slavik]

Just run a cron to tar the directory and offload it.

 

[Nudaii]

Liam you can backup the files to a3 also, i do it a few times a day also, as slavik said you can .tar and push to a3

 

[BoostN]

I've got a cron job that runs a backup script I wrote and offloads to a different directory. Then a second cron job sends those files to a different server on a different host.

You can never be to safe.

 

[MattW]

I backup the databases to s3 twice a day, but there is no easy way to automate actual file system backups. At least, not that I know of.

s3cmd

 

[Fred.]

I use rsync to sync everything to my rsync.net account. It only synchronizes the things that are changed.
I remember when I was looking to backup to S3 it didn't support incremental backups, so I would have to send a full backup every time and use a lot of data and resources.
Does it supports incremental backups now?
Not sure if I want to change. rsync.net has been great!

 

[matthewalan]

This is one of my nightmares. When I first started my job a few years ago, I was working on a clients site, and accidentally deleted everything and didn't even notice. Luckily for me the site was NOT active at all, and I had a backup laying around.

Ever since then, I've been vigilant about about making backups. I have 40+ sites (all different types of sites from WordPress to IPB to XF) doing regular backups to S3.

 

[CTXMedia]

I feel for you @Liam W - I've done that myself, many moons ago - and my employer was not a happy man. I ended up working through the night until the wee small hours to get everything back from the 8" floppy drives ...

Don't know if it will be of any help, but I use s3cmd to do a daily sync of certain directories to an S3 bucket with 7 folders - one for each day. When I discovered the flaw in XF attachements (delete it from the post deletes it from the server) I stopped using the -delete flag on the sync so it now retains all attachments (providing they're not deleted within the first 24hrs). It's saved my bacon a couple of times.