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BYOAC GOING DOWN FOR MAINTENANCE
Malenko:
--- Quote from: saint on January 19, 2018, 11:42:07 am ---The server is using a RAID-1 software mirror.
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Strike 1! lol Software mirrors, generally speaking, are ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---.
--- Quote from: wutno on January 19, 2018, 01:03:52 pm ---Please make sure you have off-site backups!
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Well offsite backups are more for like a building burning down or some other sort of catastrophic event; if Saint's crib went kaput I don't think restoring BYOAC would be very high on the priority list. It's not bad advice though! At minimum he should be dumping backups to an external drive. Its an arcade forum, not medical records ;)
Where I work, I have the VMs replicating between hosts for fail over and redundancy. Hosts are on RAID 10 (mirror of stripes), and that data is backed up to a Unitrends appliance with its own RAID10 array. Unitrends does incremental daily back ups, with synthetic fulls at the end of the week, with natural full back up once a month. That data is mirrored to the cloud nightly after CRC checks. Test restores are performed monthly as well. In the unlikely event all of our physical hosts fail we can spin up VMs on the unitrends box. If that also somehow magically died too, we can spin up VMs in the cloud.
I wrote out the entire DR plan and it was a giant pain in the butt and hopefully we never have to use it. I'm pretty savvy with backups, but my focus is still cyber security.
opt2not:
^ Get this man on the case, Saint! The guy does this stuff for a living!
saint:
The server is hosted somewhere out in cyberspace, wherever 1and1.com is physically located. In hindsight I'm not a fan of software RAID :( We use hardware RAID 5 or 10 in my data center but I don't have physical access to the box BYOAC is on so software raid it was.
Every night the various databases on BYOAC are backed up and rotated, so at any one point I have 6 copies of the forum, wiki, main site, and files databases, not including the live one being used in production. I have pulled a copy of all of these off-site to my computer. I also have backups of /etc, /boot, the html/css/etc files for sites hosted on the server, etc - all pulled off to my computer as well.
So if everything went to heck it could be rebuilt, it would just be painful.
Le Chuck:
1) thanks for the heads up
B) we need to get post likes and features like what pinside has asap or this place will become the ghost town it’s slowly devolving into. User interaction is a huge component of how we consume media now.
vwalbridge:
All this effort to keep data redundant and yet Photobucket still wrecked 1/2 the build threads.
#PourOneOut
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