New Message: Re: Towards zero-administration

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By: Samuel Reynolds (sam at spinwardstars.com)

David Bayly's bayly.root (http://www.udena.ch/baylys/Bayly.root.sit) includes a suite called "bounce" for automating some recommended periodic operations for a Frontier server:

* Save a copy and replace the original
* restart Frontier (on a schedule and/or based on memory usage)

Another thing that can bulk up your disk backups (and the likely cause of your 300MB backups--I had >1GB before I tracked this down) is Frontier's backup method for GDBs: back up all changed files in the Guest Databases folder every night (settable via the Admin site). This results in the creation of serially-numbered copies of the changed .root files; each day when a GDB changes, a new copy is created (and the old copies remain). I have a script that merges all these GDB files into a single backup containing the most recent of each GDB copy. Contact me at sam(at)SpinwardStars.com and I'll send it to you. It hooks in nicely to mainResponder's nightlyBackup callback.

HTH.

- Sam

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