23 November 2006

Server backup system implemented The highly efficient 7-Zip compression we're now using for the wiki and peer backups makes it practical for us to backup the entire server image as well. Commands.pl has had a new serverBackup function added to do this and Bender calls it to make a server image each week. The images currently are 122MB and don't include any of the larger data files such as web or database content or logs. These data files must be unpacked from the normal wiki backups. The server image is designed to be unpacked over an existing Linux install (preferably a fresh Debian install, but as we have shown in Debian Conversion it works over a redhat install as well!). See backup for more details or discussion See Debian Conversion for details on unpacking a backup into a different network or OS environment than what it was created in