On Thu, 26 Jan 2017, Brian P. Martin wrote: > - For small sites, I use a USB disk drive, which I automount when needed > and dismount when it's idle. Of course, you could do the mounts by > hand, too.
I have a 1T external USB hard drive sitting between the server and this monitor. When I log off at night I turn it on; when I come in to log on in the morning I turn it off. This has worked well for me for a number of years. > There are a few things Dirvish doesn't get on the back-ups, and most > back-ups don't get these either. These include: ... > - databases. Dirvish backs up database files, but they're probably not > any good unless the database server was down at the time. You can use > the preclient setting in dirvish to shut the database down, or if it > can't come down then use its native utilities to back it up to a flat > file, and let dirvish capture that. Every Friday I backup the postgres cluster (using pg_dumpall) and the company bookkeeping software (which writes that database to a .sql file) so dirvish copies any changes to the backup disk. As a sole professional provider my needs are simpler than for multi-employee companies with many computers. What I like about dirvish is that once I had it properly configured it just does its thing. Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
