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09-09-2019

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Originally Posted by Circuits

If my computer were to completely fail... blow up or something, no money would be lost aside from the time spent building up a new computer... a day or so. No the only thing I would loose would be the locally (non committed) changes to the application that I may or may not have made.

Then you don't really need to worry much about backups, obviously, since you are not doing anything remotely critical, by your own admission, on your computer.

FWIW, I back up the DB on this server (unix.com) locally (on the same computer) and remotely (in a completely different data center) once a day and manually backup up the configuration files, log files and web document files when ever I make changes remotely. The disk are also fully redundant (RAID configuration). If the site went up in smoke we might lose a days worth of posts, at the most in the worst case. In addition, I routinely backup to a second offsite location (on the other side of the world), in the very unlikely event two data centers in the same continent get hit by an asteroid or something unimaginable, but remotely possible.

I back my desktop computers every time I make an upgrade (before and after installing an OS upgrade) and whenever I work on an application locally, for example if coding a new applications, I back up remotely as I work (using git) after any amount of coding. I don't like rewriting code, so I back up a lot Smilie

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rdiff-backup-fs

RDIFF-BACKUP-FS(1)					      General Commands Manual						RDIFF-BACKUP-FS(1)

NAME

       rdiff-backup-fs - Filesystem for accessing rdiff-backup archives.

SYNOPSIS

       rdiff-backup-fs <mount_point> <repository> [repositories ...] [-option ...]

DESCRIPTION

       rdiff-backup-fs is a filesystem in userspace that reads rdiff-backup archives and provides convenient access.

OPTIONS

       --debug <0-4>
	      Run rdiff-backup-fs in foreground with given verbosity of debug messages.

       -f, --full
	      Store information about all revisions in memory. CAUTION: this may take a lot of memory if your archive contains many revisions.

       -l, --last
	      Displays	files from the most recent increment as directories, each holding every version of the file. CAUTION: this stores informa-
	      tion about all revisions in memory and therefore may take a lot of memory if archive contains many revisions.

       -c <n>, --caching <n>
	      How many files retrieved from the rdiff-backup archive may be cached by filesystem. By default rdiff-backup-fs will cache up  to	10
	      files. If this switch is set to 0, no caching will be done.

       -r <n>, --revisions <n>
	      How many revisions should be stored in memory for on demand revision retrieval. By default rdiff-backup-fs will store up to 10 revi-
	      sions in memory.

       -d, --directory <path>
	      Set directory for directory with temporary files. By default rdiff-backup-fs uses /tmp.

       -v, --version
	      Print version of rdiff-backup-fs and exit.

SEE ALSO

       rdiff-backup(1)

COPYRIGHT

       rdiff-backup-fs is Copyright (c) 2007-2011 Filip Gruszczyski.

       rdiff-backup-fs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License  as  published
       by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

       This  program  is  distributed  in  the	hope  that  it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MER-
       CHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.

       You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

AUTHORS

       Filip Gruszczyski <gruszczy@gmail.com>

																RDIFF-BACKUP-FS(1)