thecoalman wrote: ↑Thu Aug 18, 2022 9:37 pm
Fogbow_Foggy wrote: ↑Thu Aug 18, 2022 1:22 pm
On 21 Feb. 2021, my former hosting company informed me that my VPS was entirely lost. I thought all my backups were on my server, and it was all gone.
I'd question how that is possible, servers are usually in RAID5 disk array and the loss of one disk is inconsequential.
Trust me, I thought it wasn't possible either. My hosting company told me my server was lost and unrecoverable, so sorry, we're not telling you what happened. And I had backups on it using the WHM program they provided, but when the whole thing crashed they said "we have a sort of backup, but we don't support WHM anymore, we only support PLESK, so you're on your own trying to reinstall and reconfigure WHM from scratch ..."
It was a very bad day.
In any event ultimately you are responsible for your data. look into AutoMySQLBackup
True, and I will. I still expect a different level of service from hosting companies, and most of them I"ve had were better than 1+1.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/automysqlbackup/
There is multiple ways this can be used like using FTP to send the backups to offsite storage. The default settings keep a daily backup for 6 days. The seventh day it creates a weekly backup and on the first of the month it creates a monthly backup. The older ones are rotated out on configurable interval, e.g. you only have 6 daily at any time going back the last 6 days or 5 weekly. I just keep the Monthly for long term storage.
With Windows task scheduler I execute a WinSCP script each night and it downloads that day backup to my local machine.
Interesting, but at this point I am not allowing further edits to the DB, so why do I need to back it up nightly? I don't. I have a backup - I restored it from a backup, as noted above. I still have the backup I used to restore it, and since it's a static archive now, it can just sit.
At this point my need is not backup, it's links. My users at my ongoing forum want to link to posts on the old forum, and they're coming out without the subdomain, i.e., the links say "/thefogbow.com/forum/..." instead of "/formerly.thefogbow.com/forum/..."
Can anyone help with that?