Forum Backup

[anti]

Just curious if you guys keep the forum backed up, other then on the same servers?

Wouldn't hurt to keep a seperate copy at home for say every 3 months or something.

Only mention it because i've seen forums crash more times recently then not, and it was pretty painful each time. (60k, 140k, and a 200k post forum)

Would hate to see any part of this place lost.

[Swede]

You can rest, we do keep backups, both on a secondary HD in the same server and on a completely different location (not even in the same country).

[Shinigami-Sama]

doesn't this place have 5 mirrors?
so thats 5 secondry drives plus any back ups doom9, swede or any other admin keep, plus what ever other black magic is running D:

atleast I think doom9 said there were 5 last time someone asked <.<

[Doom9]

that's the site, not the forum..

[Shinigami-Sama]

shouldn't they both be mirrored on the servers?
well thats what I'm used to anyways, but then again they're a lot smaller than this one too..

[anti]

Would be kinda hard to mirror a forum system, cross updating across the servers and such. Would be plain wierd.

Anyways, nice to know, just thought i'd bring it up incase. Funny as it seems some people don't back anything up until its too late.

[Doom9]

shouldn't they both be mirrored on the servers?Mirroring databases over the Internet? Best of luck to you. Seriously, try to read up on Mysql mirroring and I'm quite sure you won't suggest something like that in the future. But if you want to get ateme another server to put next to the existing one, I'm sure they wouldn't mind either ;) Separating static content is a whole different ballgame than dynamic content.

[Shinigami-Sama]

well I have a nice $90 book on php and mysql that I havn't had time to even open yet do to my course load, which has gotten to sane levels now so I should have time too