[Labs-l] Incremental backups or alternative

[Ricordisamoa]

Hi Marek,

I'd advise using a version control system, such as Git, at least for 
code and important data that cannot be recreated from scratch.

Il 19/06/2015 11:56, Marek Blahus ha scritto:
> Hello,
>
> if there are no incremental backups of our tools' code and data and no 
> plan to introduce that (?), what can I do to make sure that I won't 
> loose another ten days' worth of volunteer work next time a disk 
> failure occurs at the Labs?
>
> Currently, I think of scheduling a daily rsync to my computer or 
> another non-WMF server. Is that the best idea? (I am not very keen on 
> doing that, though, because I know it would make much more sense to 
> have this solved at Labs themselves.) What do you other people do to 
> prevent data loss in outages like this one?
>
> Marek Blahuš
>
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