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Originally Posted by mrmister
Hi all
Do you guys upload it to another server via a cron script or do you download it locally?
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Depends really on what you are backing up, how much data and how often it changes.
On our dev server what I do is every day create Monday.tar.gz, Tuesday.tar.gz, etc and upload it to an s3 storage overwriting the previous day so I have a 7 day rolling backup.
On a client's cam site where there's lots of financial transactions we do a dump every 3 hours and upload similarly with a 7 day rolling backup.
If I was running a paysite i'd backup the videos/thumbs incrimentally separately from the code and db.
In some cases it's cheaper to get a cheap machine from OVH and backup to that plus then you always have a "spare server" in case shit hits the fan and you need to get something back up quickly.