You can take it a step further and use an additional cronjob to transfer your backed-up directories via SFTP. If you don't maintain non-game-server resources on the web that you can administer (or have someone else administer) to grant the necessary access, you could probably get away with using Amazon's AWS free tier instances and a very small amount of EBS storage.
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 10:47 AM, Weasel <[email protected]> wrote: > Not really that uncommon. Most of us have learned "the hard way". Been > doing HLDS in one form or another since 1999, and backups have save my butt > more times than I can remember, much less count. > > I schedule/cron a script to 7-zip my game server folders - at least once a > week. Getting that backup copy OFF the server - to another "safe" location > (for something like a hardware failure) is bit harder (depending on > resources available, etc.). > > But, my sympathies either way. > > [original message below] > [quote] > Message: 4 > Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 04:47:24 -0600 > From: Crazed Gunman <[email protected]> > To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [hlds] hlds Digest, Vol 22, Issue 29 > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Backups: uncommon practice on HLDS. > > - via iPhone > [/quote] > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds >
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