I'm not going to lose my website, am I?
Sitting in my office in the dark after the power went out on campus this morning, I started thinking about our College-wide website. I'm a fanatic when it comes to backing up my data. For example, I run a basic subversion server to maintain code changes to my site, a version cue server to maintain changes to documents and image files, back up my data to an external hard drive, and back up my most important files on the mobile me website. I even have our server administrator keeping a 'live' copy of the database contents and he backs up that data to a separate ftp server.
So, I know that for the most part I can recover the website in case of disaster. However, (and this is because I've been burned in the past) I always feel like I'm not doing enough. You see, all of our data (except what's on the mobile me site) is housed here at the College (unless I take my laptop home). If we were to have a tragedy take out Collings Hall, probably 90% of our site is gone.
I'd like to know what others are doing in the way of offsite/remote data backup. I've thought of doing an ftp backup of our site and database contents to an off-site server. Would this be the most efficient, lowest maintenance method? ... or are there other more viable options.
What do you think?
So, I know that for the most part I can recover the website in case of disaster. However, (and this is because I've been burned in the past) I always feel like I'm not doing enough. You see, all of our data (except what's on the mobile me site) is housed here at the College (unless I take my laptop home). If we were to have a tragedy take out Collings Hall, probably 90% of our site is gone.
I'd like to know what others are doing in the way of offsite/remote data backup. I've thought of doing an ftp backup of our site and database contents to an off-site server. Would this be the most efficient, lowest maintenance method? ... or are there other more viable options.
What do you think?
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