Rojo/Backups

backup

what to back up

Components to back up:

• Lamp server
• Gitea server
• Wiki
• Website

Lamp server:

• Apache config
• Nginx config
• MySQL config
• PHP config

Gitea server:

• Repositories
• Configuration files
• Source code (from github/etc)

where to back up

Two sets of scripts:

• short term backups
• long term backups

Short term backups:

• rotating schedule
• circular list
• 5 days of files
• delete older than 5 days

Long term backups:

• fixed schedule
• Weekly backups on the 1st, 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th
• Weekly backups go back 1 month
• Monthly backups on the 1st
• Monthly backups go back 6 months
• Files older than 6 months are put in S3 Glacier

Maintenance script:

• Weekly tasks:
  • create weekly backups
  • check If it is the 1st
  • if so, do monthly tasks
• Monthly tasks:
  • remove all weekly backups except the 1st
  • move weekly backup from 1st into monthly backups
  • Move oldest monthly (6 months old) into glacier

restore

Components to restore:

• Lamp server
• Gitea server - building gitea from source, deploying
• Wiki
• Website
• Jobs - cron jobs, backup scripts, push/pull scripts, screen processes