Backup Process

Summary

The server runs a script /root/bin/backupall.sh once a day from a cron link in /etc/cron.daily. This script dumps the MySQL and PostgreSQL databases, dumps the SVN repositories, and makes hot copies of the Trac data.

Then these directories and more are pulled to the backup machine using rdiff-backup which does incremental copies.

Once a month sean or matthew burns the backup dircectory to a DVD. This has to be tarred, because of the lack of support for deep directory recursion in Joilet filesystem.