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The purpose of backup is to enable recovery. Backup and recovery are always risky; here are some steps that minimize the chance recovery is necessary: -
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+Store everything on a fault-tolerant disk array (RAID 1 or 5 or better).
Use battery backup.
Use more reliable hardware, such as SCSI instead of IDE. -
These steps improve the chances of successful recovery:
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These steps improve the chances of successful recovery:
+Store backups on a third disk on another controller
Store backups on a different computer on a different network @@ -24,13 +30,16 @@
Make it easy to maintain and test your recovery strategy, so that you are more likely to do it. -
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OpenACS installations comprise files and database contents.
If you follow the reference install and put all files,
including configuration files, in
- /var/lib/aolserver/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME/,
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and back up the database nightly to a file in
- $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME//var/lib/aolserver/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME/database-backup,
+ /var/lib/aolserver/,
then you can apply standard file-based backup strategies to
- $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME/database-backup/var/lib/aolserver/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME
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/var/lib/aolserver/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME
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