From: Ian Kelling <iank@fsf.org>
To: Overseers mailing list <overseers@sourceware.org>
Cc: mark at klomp dot org <sourceware-bugzilla@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [Bug Infrastructure/29644] New: Offsite backup/system
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2022 00:10:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fsg54k0i.fsf@fsf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bug-29644-14326@http.sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
mark at klomp dot org via Overseers <overseers@sourceware.org> writes:
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29644
>
> Bug ID: 29644
> Summary: Offsite backup/system
> Product: sourceware
> Version: unspecified
> Status: NEW
> Severity: normal
> Priority: P2
> Component: Infrastructure
> Assignee: overseers at sourceware dot org
> Reporter: mark at klomp dot org
> Target Milestone: ---
>
> Sourceware currently has a life backup system (running in the same rack as the
> main machine) that could take over the main server if it goes down. But we
> don't have a full offsite backup system (even though most project data is
> mirrored in various places).
>
> We should make a plan and budget for having a full system backup offsite. How
> much data changes per hour/day which needs to be stored offsite. And write up
> procedures for how to (re)create a life system from that in case of emergency.
At the FSF, we do nightly backups to a physical machine we run with all
free software including the bios, and monthly backups to tape that are
manually stored offline in a separate location for disaster recovery. I
bet we have plenty of storage room to backup sourcware's data too (how
much are we talking?). I presume it would make sense to allow the
sourceware servers to write and read backups, but not delete them
without a human being involved.
Note: I think the right term is "live system" instead of "life system".
--
Ian Kelling | Senior Systems Administrator, Free Software Foundation
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-03 4:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-02 21:39 mark at klomp dot org
2022-10-03 4:10 ` Ian Kelling [this message]
2022-10-03 4:18 ` [Bug Infrastructure/29644] " iank at fsf dot org
2022-10-03 16:37 ` fche at redhat dot com
2022-10-06 17:40 ` mark at klomp dot org
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