[support] Backup Approaches - Which Do You Use and Why?
Bob Turner
Bob at TurnerPCC.com
Mon Oct 8 19:03:05 UTC 2012
Being new to Drupal I don't do any of the below. Being an old-timer on
VMware, all I do is shutdown the VM and copy the disk files that represent
the computer to another computer. I've also cloned entire web sites, (er
computer), in this manner.
Bob
-----Original Message-----
From: Kenneth Jacker
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2012 12:29 PM
To: Drupal Support
Subject: [support] Backup Approaches - Which Do You Use and Why?
Though I am sure that there are more, I can think of at least four ways
to backup a Drupal site:
* Drush's 'archive-dump' (ard) command
(Backup your code, files, and database into a single file.)
* The 'Backup and Migrate' (B&M) module
(simplifies the task of backing up and restoring your Drupal database)
* Use a "version control system" (VCS)
* Use 'rsync'
B&M allows automatic scheduling of backups ... definitely an advantage.
'ard', on the other hand requires manual, 'cron' or scripted invocation.
*I* seem to favor 'ard' since it backs up *code and files* along with
databases. B&M, apparently, only backs up databases.
Another approach might be using a VCS (e.g., 'git', 'subversion', _et al_)
... or keep synchronized copies with 'rsync'. (These two, however, seem
more suited for maintaining "development" and "production" versions of a
site than for backing up.)
How do *you* periodically backup your site(s)?
Thanks for your comments!
-Kenneth
--
Prof Kenneth H Jacker khj at cs.appstate.edu
Computer Science Dept www.cs.appstate.edu/~khj
Appalachian State Univ
Boone, NC 28608 USA
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