DevilYellow
03-04-2008, 08:24 PM
I know that Masalaman's Hotcopy Thread (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=134821)is widely popular as well extremely popular. Lately I wanted to apply an off-site backup solution to my database backups. I've been using Amazon's Simple Storage Solution (S3). As crazy as it sounds it only costs me $1.50 a month to backup 2 sites and 2 databases. One site has 3+ million posts and the over is over 15,000 posts.
So back in December I devised a way to perform regular hotcopy backups, then combined the backed up files in an archive, then moved the archive off to S3. The process ends with a confirmation email.
However I ran into quite a few little hiccups. I perfected it and its been running for the past 4 months now. Its quite complex so I broke up the how-to into 3 separate blogs. I tried to note all the pitfalls and problems I had.
It's been awhile since I first wrote all this out so I may have a few typo's somewhere in the tutorial. I will be glad to edit/perfect it if someone has constructive criticism.
Click here for Part 1 of my tutorial (http://www.schwenn.us/?p=3)
So back in December I devised a way to perform regular hotcopy backups, then combined the backed up files in an archive, then moved the archive off to S3. The process ends with a confirmation email.
However I ran into quite a few little hiccups. I perfected it and its been running for the past 4 months now. Its quite complex so I broke up the how-to into 3 separate blogs. I tried to note all the pitfalls and problems I had.
It's been awhile since I first wrote all this out so I may have a few typo's somewhere in the tutorial. I will be glad to edit/perfect it if someone has constructive criticism.
Click here for Part 1 of my tutorial (http://www.schwenn.us/?p=3)