Best Backup Method(s) For Archiving Data
Jul 20, 2008
I was hesitant to even post this because I've been on the net for so long, that and I know just about every method out there. However, large corporations obviously can't live with loosing data so I figured I'd see what everybody else is doing out and figure out my next battle plan for archiving data.
Here's what happened. I had triple backups of some data. I burned them twice on DVD (yes, two DVD's of each archive) as well as had them on a WD hard drive. ALL are dead or unreadable. I had the discs in a DVD binder and they were never touched for a good 5 years. I put them in a player (multiple players) and only certain parts were read.
Other parts came up with errors. (Yes, I'm aware there are companies that offer recovery for both CD/DVD and Hard drives, but they always charge a fortune and in some cases, aren't worth it). This was Memorex media btw which might of had something to do with it, but at the time I thought it was the best. Next I went to the hard drive. This was stored in a room temp house over a good 5 years and when I plugged it in to a computer's IDE port, nothing. Not sure exactly what's wrong with the drive and I'm sure it could be fixed and recovered, but once again, that's not my question.
My Question: What methods are you using to store your archives over long periods of time? Any recommendations on hardware? I'm thinking of DLT Tape backups and of course doing RAID next but don't want to run into the same problem in 5 years. How can I sleep at night (which is already impossible) knowing that in 5 or 10 years when I'm ready to get into my backups that they will be there?
What are you doing and what do you recommend? Better yet, what the hell is Hollywood doing to keep all their music and movies safe?
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Apr 3, 2009
I was wondering what is the best backup method for 2 servers with over 3TB of data? Need the best backup solutions so if something happens sites are easy to get back online.
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With a Linux/cPanel VPS, what is the best backup method?
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Is their a more efficient and less bandwidth consuming method for VPS's?
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I have dedicated server at GoDaddy and I am hosting very important web service for our company. We have only one HDD on server and no FTP backup. What is the best method to protect data and whole server from HDD crash? Is it enough to add second HDD?
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How do I archive a whole directory using ssh?
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Apr 27, 2007
I have many directories from years ago on a fileserver. Many of them are indexed on Google. I have five webservers reading from one fileserver for the data. I'd like to keep copies of the most recent data on the webservers and through mod_rewrite tell it to use local copies instead of reading through the fileserver. I would like to move most of my older directories into an "archived" directory.
If I move most of my older directories into an archived directory, the Google listings will then 404. I could put a 404 doc up redirecting to the index page, but Google will drop the link, which I would like to avoid.
I could add a new RewriteCond / RewriteRule (below) for each new directory. But, it would need to be added in the httpd.conf file for each of the webservers and restarted. With the number of new directories I add, this would be infeasible.
Does anyone know of a way to accomplish what I am trying to do? I do not need the older directories in the "archived" directory to be accessible or rewritten, I just don't want to lose the search engine listings from them. And, I want to reduce the strain on the fileserver for these files.
I also don't know of a way to say: rewrite everything locally unless it is in the /dir1/archived directory and if there is a 404, the directory probably existed at some point, redirect that to the index and give a 200 status code.
Does anyone have any suggestions? I tried mod_cache but it doesn't seem all that speedy.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/dir1/dir2
RewriteRule ^/dir1/dir2/(.*)$ /path/to/dir1-localcache/dir2/$1
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What are the different ways to have 2 dedicated server work together so i have 0% down time.
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This means i will have Data of accounts on both servers but one server will host dns of some urls, while other server will host nds of other urls. But both server will have same hosting accounts (mirror = THIS IS DONE THROUGHT WHM/CPANEL).
HOWEVER MORE IMPORTANT, I want to have all my hosting accounts(url) on both server so if my one sever goes down i will I can have the other server have all url ready to work.
I am tryig to do this WITH-IN my domain dealer WITH NS.
If not, what can I do to make use of both of my servers so if one goes down I can not have down time per say. At the same time I will not ran into this email problems? Plus use both server for hosting, too?
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