[Cialug] Most reliable backup solution

[Kenneth Younger]

What about building servers completely with Puppet/Chef/other CM tool? If
you build the scripts well enough originally, then you can generally remove
ongoing dealings with that list other than #2. Also, it can help with
scaling (if and when you need it). I used to think CM was just for
people/orgs that needed to provision 100's of servers and complex
infrastructure, when I started viewing it as a way to manage infrastructure
entirely with code (DRY, version control!, etc), it started to make more
sense even on a single server system.

Which is why I've been studying up on Puppet recently. But I'm not saying
Puppet is better than Chef or any of the others, it's just what I picked,
and I may change in the future. (CM tool decisions are the new vi/emacs
flame wars topics it seems...)


On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 9:24 AM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:

> Most of the backup solutions I've used involved rsync and a remote file
> store. The restore process looks like this:
>
>   1a. Install OS and updates
>   1b. Install required packages (hopefully I get them all)
>   1c. Configure software (by restoring /etc)
>   2. Restore data
>   3. Restart services and we're live
>
> The effort to do steps 1a - 1c are pretty laborious. In the case of a web
> server, it takes far longer than restoring the data.
>
> I've used time-machine for Mac OS and it works pretty slick. If you
> experience a failure or data loss, you boot off of the installation media,
> at the installation screen choose to restore from backup, choose the backup
> location and it restores the OS, the Apps and your data in one swoop.
>
> I was wondering last night if there is a better way to do my server backup
> than what I'm using. I know about CrashPlan, but essentially, it is still
> going to be the same steps above, if I understand correctly.
>
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