Re: Backups
Reply #17 –
i agree, it should be an addon too.
Re: Backups
Reply #18 –
I said that we should get rid of it before. I am all for that. Though, it was shot down because it would take more to get rid of it than it is just to keep it. I guess in a future version it will disappear.
I totally agree with not implementing half assed features and users' expectations.
Re: Backups
Reply #19 –
Just to clear things up a bit and not mix stuff.
1) The database back in ElkArte is perfectly functioning.
2) To reduce at a minimum the risk of broken backups, Elk tries to "guess" (based on resources available) if the backup will complete before the backup is started. And if the server config looks problematic, is not even possible to start the backup.
Under optimal conditions I was able to perfectly backup a 2 GB database.
So, as far as I can tell it's far from being an half assed feature.
That said, of course any php script may suffer from many kind of problems, so it may be possible the database backup is not entirely reliable.
Unfortunately it's difficult to account for all the possible combinations.
I personally wouldn't use an email to store the backups for many reasons (from the limits that may prevent the sending or the receiving of the email, making the backup as useless as a broken one, to the fact that emails are not really the safes place to store things, see the many cases of account breaches and passwords leaks).
Re: Backups
Reply #22 –
2FA is a fake sense of security. Someone with a duplicate SIM card can easily get through the defence.
Re: Backups
Reply #29 –
I already setup grive2 and only need a script to backup my database to its folder.
I was considering to use jorin's php script yesterday but yours seems better and simpler @emanuele, since it covers both forum database and files.
However I'd prefer smallest compression, so I think I'll change the zip command to tar -cjvf to turn it to a tar.bz2 file.
I am not sure whether I need to backup the whole forum though I think it is good and easy. At least I think packages/backups can be opted out by adding --exclude=/path/to/root/htdocs/forum/packages/backups.
Let's see how this goes then.