[Gllug] web server specs

Alain Williams addw at phcomp.co.uk
Mon Oct 1 13:07:29 UTC 2001


On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 12:11:56PM +0100, Jim Cheetham wrote:
> Instead, identify carefully the changeable data on the machine **that is
> not already sourced from elsewhere** and back that up over the network.
> 
> For example, your web pages don't need backing up (hopefully they come
> from a developer's machine in your existing networks). Probably the only
> things you want are the system start-up files and config stuff from etc.
> Being text, these should be easily backed up over the net (easy to
> compress). Everything else (OS and apps) should be easy to rebuild
> automatically (or at least by written-down processes).

Don't forget your log files -- these can get big quickly.
Supposing that you are interested in looking at them in the first place.

-- 
Alain Williams

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