Can you count on your host ?

Cleo · 10-04-2005

Since I run that flavor of *nix called Mac OS keeping a local copy of my servers on my laptop is simple and hassle free using Cron and Rsync. Each night around 4am a crontab is run syncing my servers to my laptop. Actually I have a few versions being kept in case of data corruption and not just a drive failure.

Not that I every worry about my host which is Colo-Cation having any issues since they also do nightly backups and have diesel generators in case of power failure.

Having a local backup is also very sweet if I want to change something on my servers. I just do a search and replace using my favorite editors on my laptop's local backup and then Rsync my local files back to my server which usually takes only a few minutes if even that.

10-04-2005	#7
Cleo Omnipotent Ruler Of Perversion Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: SouthEast Florida Posts: 810	Re: Can you count on your host ? Since I run that flavor of *nix called Mac OS keeping a local copy of my servers on my laptop is simple and hassle free using Cron and Rsync. Each night around 4am a crontab is run syncing my servers to my laptop. Actually I have a few versions being kept in case of data corruption and not just a drive failure. Not that I every worry about my host which is Colo-Cation having any issues since they also do nightly backups and have diesel generators in case of power failure. Having a local backup is also very sweet if I want to change something on my servers. I just do a search and replace using my favorite editors on my laptop's local backup and then Rsync my local files back to my server which usually takes only a few minutes if even that. __________________ Pimp My Tranny Neighbor Traffic Trades