-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/07/2011 08:02 AM, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote: > I did a first pass at creating a backup process for > gerrit.ovirt.org: > > http://ovirt.org/wiki/Gerrit_backup This is now: http://ovirt.org/wiki/Gerrit_server_backup It includes the addition of a PostgreSQL database backup script. All the backups for this are found on the remote host (ovirt.org) /home/gerrit-backup. In testing I've run initial backups and copies to the remote host of the git repo and gerrit database; they'll also run tonight in a few hours (10 and 10:20 pm East coast time.)

- - Karsten > Right now it uses rsync on /usr/local/src/git to a remote directory > at ovirt.org:/home/gerrit-backup/gerrit.ovirt.org-src-backup/src/ > . > > So that's my hacky process and bash script to start. Very open to > other ideas. > > One I'm not clear on is what we really need backed up from > gerrit.ovirt.org? I'd like us to get /etc in a private git repo, > maybe we just do that as a single repo that we distribute across > all hosts' /root directories? Should we also be using git for > backing up the git repo - so have gerrit-backup on the remote host > pull changes instead of pushing a directory structure via rsync? > > Itamar mentions that we need to backup the Gerrit DB, which I'll > work on next. I reckon that's a combination of a dump of the > database and rsyncing the results to the remote host? > > - Karsten _______________________________________________ Infra > mailing list Infra(a)ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/infra - -- name: Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Community Architect team: Red Hat Community Architecture& Leadership uri: http://communityleadershipteam.org http://TheOpenSourceWay.org gpg: AD0E0C41 _______________________________________________ Infra mailing list Infra(a)ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/infra

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/08/2011 05:31 AM, Itamar Heim wrote: > >> seems like backing up the gerrit2 user home folder would help as >> well: >> http://groups.google.com/group/repo-discuss/browse_thread/thread/9d779320... Thanks! >> There was a valuable hidden folder (~/.gerritcodereview) that I didn't know was there, so definitely worth grabbing. I added a third cronjob to backup /home/gerrit2 every day at 10:40 pm Eastern time. That script and details are now in: http://ovirt.org/wiki/Gerrit_server_backup

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/10/2011 12:10 AM, Dan Kenigsberg wrote: > > The backup is never going to be a consistent snapshop, I couldn't see a way to make a consistent snapshot; is there a better or at least more consistent way to do the snapshot?

> but why add an intentional 20 minute window between the different > backup jobs? why not serialize them in a single script? It was more the way things got built than a specific plan. I wanted a buffer so that backups could be complete before the next one starts - didn't want to risk the backup by abusing resources all at the same time. The backup scripts were written so we could reuse them easily on other hosts, but it wouldn't be hard to do it all in one script, serially.