Any chance of moving the daily backups to a few hours later? US visitors to your site occasionally get the "nightly server maintenance" screen during what for us are reasonably hours. I suggest midnight Japan time or something, they can be safely ignored. Or nuked, whichever.
We are accessible to the whole globe, so some time is gonna be bad for someone!
Gareth is in college in the day and cant back up from there, and to do it a few hours later than we do it now would mean getting up in the middle of the night.
We will try to do it a bit earlier, later is impossible.
What about using a scheduler or some kind of script to run the backup automatically?
if he's unix-savvy, this is exactly what cron is for
I have considered using a cron job to do it - bah, i'll do that now
*logs into linux box*
i hope you lot are happy - i'm having to install a MySQL client on this box now. grrr
Already tested
ready to rock
i'll set it up to run at about 4am GMT
I wasn't annoyed, honest! Well OK, you could have done it in the morning before going to college while I was still getting my beauty sleep (don't knock it, it works!).
Hell guys, do it the way which suits you! It's a case of "you can't please everyone...".
well, doing it manually requires me to sit there and wait for it to finish then modify the .htaccess file again to remove the notice
i don't have enough time in the mornings to do all that!
but, got an automated thingy now
yay
As long as you are happy mush; yaheeeyyyy!
Heh. Well I live in unix and have a freebsd box at home. I'm *all* about automation =) Work consists of about 10 machines, including stuff ranging from a five-9's database server, ultra-secured webservers, mail relay/spamblock, and a backup server with 6 tape drives attached.
Oh, and a tape silo with a robot! =D =D =D
Toys, toys...
I'm getting toys from ebay:
Cisco routers
Cisco access server
Sun sparcs
Various standard x86 machines
and a mix of linux, freebsd and solaris
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
heh. I used to do that.
At its peak, my home comp lab consisted of:
my windows gaming box (of course)
a locked down windows workstation for confidential stuff like Quicken
Sun SparcServer 10 w/ disk array
Sun SparcClassic
DEC AlphaStation 4/100
IBM RS/6000 model 350
NeXT Turboslab
Various x86 machines running: OS/2 Warp 3.0, Novell Netware 4.11, Slackware Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD.
Plans were in place to acquire a m68k series Mac, an early PowerMac, and an SGI machine.
I also had a stack of x86 hardware awaiting configuration with BeOS, NeXTStep X86, Plan9, and a small beowulf cluster..
The month the SparcServer w/ disk array went online, my electric bill went from under $200/mo to over $400/mo. I shut the lab down in a hurry. It took a few years after that, but I've finally divested myself of all of that hardware.
I'd love to do it all again, but I can't afford it.
The point at the time was to run as many different platforms as possible. I'm also a unix admin (AIX) by trade, not Windows, so I prefer not to be running Windows as a server.
The setup i'll be having soon:
Sun machine for shell accounts (given to "special people") running linux with openmosix and a few kernel-level security patches.
The current x86 server running chatautism's services (autopia) running linux with openmosix, IRCD, apache and NFS
A couple of other sun machines and various random x86 boxes running as compute nodes on the openmosix cluster
Cisco router with ACL to prevent people with shell accounts on the sun machine talking to the private desktops on the other subnet
Some windows boxes for personal use (myself and Amy)