I'm writing from a tablet, so apologies for any typos, brevity, etc., as well as quoting everything below. I don't recall any of the discussions (or if there even were discussions) surrounding including dar in the SME base, though I recall Darrell May being a proponent of that software.
Before we get too deep in the weeds of which software package to implement, it'd probably be best to define our requirements. As I see it, dar is adequate in terms of features: * make full and incremental backups on an arbitrary schedule * store backups on an arbitrary network share, requiring only SMB or NFS access to the share * chunk backups so they don't exceed filesystem size limits or media capacity (e.g., if they were to be burned to CD/DVD) * allow full or selective restore from any date's backup (kind of weak here, only allows selected files, not directories) The biggest problem that I see with dar, at least as it's now implemented, is that it's too fragile. Any interruption borks your entire backup set, so you have to toss it out and start over. That's just unacceptable. I don't know if there are ways to make dar more robust in this regard, or if we'd need to go to an alternative tool to do this. If we're changing backup tools, though, now is the time to do so--we can't be breaking compatibility in a point release. If we're going to look at changing tools, we should also consider harmonizing the backup options. There's no good reason that the console backup should be completely different from the web-based backup. > On Apr 7, 2017, at 07:20, Stefano Zamboni <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 07/04/2017 13:09, Hans Riethmann wrote: >> >> Referring to my other post, mentioning otibackup. This was one of the big >> reasons why I choose to write something my own. It is not otibackup itself >> but additonal tools which let you create an smeserver.tar.gz file of just >> the server configuration. Once you have restored the server to it's original >> config, you sync back whatever backup of the user data/content in the >> history. I've done two updates with this approach when going from SME 7 to 8 >> to 9. I always did a fresh install with the configuration in the tar.gz file >> and synced all the data back as postinstall. > > this is another topic to be discussed.. in the past there was the possibility > to backup server's configuration separately.. this is something we'd re-add, > because restoring some hundreds of GB of email could lead to have your server > offline for too much time > > Thank you for pointing it up > > S. > _______________________________________________ > Discussion about project organisation and overall direction > To unsubscribe, e-mail [email protected] > Searchable archive at https://lists.contribs.org/mailman/public/discussion/ > _______________________________________________ Discussion about project organisation and overall direction To unsubscribe, e-mail [email protected] Searchable archive at https://lists.contribs.org/mailman/public/discussion/
