Backup fully automated
February 16th, 2010
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The backup of the cpcwiki, forum and blog is now fully automated and done on a daily basis. Our excellent webspace provider enabled con-jobs via Plesk, making the process much easier. The daily dump of all three databases happens directly on the server without the need for an external trigger. MySQLDumper still dows a great job here.
The database dump and any other new files added to the wiki are then pulled via FTP from an external server hosted at a different provider. The backup starts every night at 3 o’clock and takes less than one hour.
The compressed dumps of the wiki and forum databse occupy 26 MB and 1.8 MB respectively. The whole site backup weights in at 6.5 GB.