Re: [Firebird-website] [Firebird-general] Re: Fb Website

[Lester C. <le...@ls...>]

Pavel Cisar wrote:
> Lester Caine napsal(a):
>> Why is backup complicated? cron job drops a copy of the database into
>> a suitable directory, and rsync clones everything. It's been working
>> fine for me for some time now. If the main server goes down, just
>> point to the backup.
> 
> For "file copy" you would need to take the server down or use nbackup
> (which we'll do only over my dead body), or we'll have to go with gbak.
> I agree that it's not a rocket science, but it introduces additional
> points of failure to the system. We're running the website from
> relatively small VMWare virtual machine located at the other end of the
> world (no webmaster resides on American continents), so if we could
> avoid the database, then better for us poor admins. Tracker is enough
> for us to handle in such setup, and we have no intention to "promote" so
> far zero-maintenance website to this level.

Actually I meant cron job drops BACKUP into a directory ....

My main machine is over in Germany and I have no problem maintaining it from the 
UK. If the current machine is a bottleneck I have more than enough space to add 
another site, and unlimited bandwidth.

I had thought one of the complaints about the current setup was that things were 
very disjointed. I'm more than happy to maintain this - as far as I am concerned 
it is very little work. And properly set up, we can even maintain translated 
versions of the content in parallel.

Perhaps at some point we can even integrate the tracker and considerably 
simplify maintaining that as well ;) ( I did offer to provide that via bw's 
tracker before it was changed! )

In the meantime the how about using the facilities that do exist rather than 
'creating a wiki with drafts and roadmap' - just use the existing wiki ? People 
may find they like it :)

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