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sysadmin advice concerning backups

Matthew Graybosch hello at matthewgraybosch.com

Sat Jun 13 06:55:20 BST 2020

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I could use a little sysadmin advice, because this is really my firsttime hosting other people and I don't want to screw it up.

I've got weekly backups arranged via Vultr, but I'm also thinking ofsetting up a cron job that takes nightly backups of all users'public_gemini directories using tar and gzip.

Admittedly this is something users should be doing for themselves ifthey're using their shell accounts to write instead of uploading fromtheir own machines, but I want tanelorn.city to be a welcoming placefor writers even if they aren't Unix wizards, and I think that meansmaking sure their data is safe.

Is this something that other pubnixes provide for users' homedirectories? Are there any downsides I should be aware of aside fromthe impact on CPU and storage as more people join tanelorn.city?

-- Matthew Graybosch gemini://starbreaker.org#include <disclaimer.h> gemini://demifiend.orghttps://matthewgraybosch.com gemini://tanelorn.city"Out of order?! Even in the future nothing works."