6 Jun
2012
6 Jun
'12
5:40 a.m.
Hi,
On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 02:14:21PM +0100, Gerald Davies wrote:
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Miah Gregory
<miah(a)darksilence.net> wrote:
> I back up the entire disk image personally […]
[…]
This is what I would like, but I thought it would put
an overhead on
the service provided for everyone if everyone backed up using this
approach.
At the moment the only metric we're charging by for the backups is
the disk space used, so this sort of thing is really for me to worry
about.
Bear in mind if just backing up the filesystem with rsync then
data inside the memory of applications (e.g. pending changes in
databases like MySQL) may not get backed up properly. So you
probably want additional stuff to dump that data out consistently or
whatever.
While BitFolk's backup solution is designed to be fairly simple and
only uses rsync, if you're doing your own solution then you can back
up a VPS the same way that you back up any host, so just think about
how you normally do it.
Cheers,
Andy
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