I do a full backup on the bbs once a week, I am beginning to think a differential backup would be better and faster. I am backing up to a 10 tb usb. It takes 45 minutes right now. What are the critical folders to back up in your opinion. I am just using the copy command. What do you use and what areas do you backup?
I do a full backup on the bbs once a week, I am beginning to think a differential backup would be better and faster. I am backing up to a 10 tb usb. It takes 45 minutes right now. What are the critical
folders to back up in your opinion. I am just using the copy command. What do you use and what areas do you backup?
Re: Backup policy
By: Rixter to All on Sun Jan 12 2025 12:32 pm
How much space does your BBS take up? I have a script to archive my BBS and it usually takes about 5 minutes or so, and then I copy that to an external USB flash drive.
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Re: Backup policy
By: Rixter to All on Sun Jan 12 2025 12:32:05
I use a combination of backup routines:
1. The server is backed up every day as an image which includes the OS and applications (e.g. sbbs) using Active Backup for Business by Synology (using their default retention policy = keep the latest of 7 days, 4 weeks, 12 months, 3 years).
2. I rsync the whole /sbbs directory to another server in another country every day.
3. I use tar with xz to copy sbbs minus data/dirs/ to same server above every day retaining the last 30 days.
Probably an overkill, but you can never have enough backups in my view :)
K
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I do a full backup on the bbs once a week, I am beginning to think a differential backup would be better and faster. I am backing up to a 10 tb usb. It takes 45 minutes right now. What are the critical folders to back up in your opinion. I am just using the copy command. What do you use and what areas do you backup?
Probably an overkill, but you can never have enough backups in my view :)
Re: Backup policy
By: Rixter to All on Sun Jan 12 2025 12:32:05
I create a list of packages installed on my system and back that up long with my sbbs directory on a daily basis using burp backup. My backup server is on another continent. I keep 7 days, then a couple of monthly backups, though that's really overkill, I have the space for it.
If the server is lost, it's very easy to recreate, install burp, pull the package list and install the packages and restore the BBS. The entire backup is 26gb including file areas.
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Probably an overkill, but you can never have enough backups in my view :)
Keyop is the home of overkill ;)
Thank you I will look into it. All I really need is to backup my message bases, userlists, and about 8 of the door game players files that change a lot weekly, the rest would be redundant. I have one full backup I keep and it takes a while to do. It would recreate the entire BBS if needed. I have done it on an old pc I am restoring and it worked great. I was hoping to make a script to back up the changes each week or day as some SYSOPs are doing. I am studying F BACKUP at the moment because it can be automated. I have a batch file in the works. Thank you for the information on BURP. Have a great day!
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