(180) Automate Trac site backup

[balister]

I have a script that dumps trac and copies it to my house. Before ticket can close, need to copy it elsewhere and get it running in crontab. Need to set up some ssh keys for autologin somewhere to do this.

#!/bin/sh

cd

sudo trac-admin /srv/trac/ossie hotcopy ./trac-backup

rsync -avz ./trac-backup www.balister.org:pippin/ossie-backup

sudo rm -rf ./trac-backup

[bhilburn]

Should we be relying on your personal machines for backup? There must be another location we can back up to. I feel like using the ECE computing cluster would be better than your personal machine.

[balister]

I agree this is not optimal.

I don't keep up with my account on the cluster. Do they even back up user accounts on it?

[bhilburn]

My understanding is that there is now a cron'd backup of trac. Can we close this ticket?

[balister]

I running it when I remember. To cron it, I would need to leave a copy of my private key on ossie.wireless.vt.edu, which I won't do because so many people have root access.

Anyway, it should not be stored on my machine.

[bhilburn]

The recent meeting minutes seem to imply that the server now syncs with a backup hdd every half hour. Can we close this ticket now?

[anonymous]

Milestone Improved Backup deleted