notes backup log

[maiki]

This is a log for tracking backups from this site, http://notes.maiki.interi.org.

[maiki]

-rw-r--r-- 1 maiki maiki  17M Nov 12 11:47 notes-2022-11-07-033242-v20221027090832.tar.gz

[maiki]

-rw-r--r--. 1 maiki maiki 73M Apr  6 12:23 notes-2025-04-06-192213-v20250325074111.sql.gz

The actual reason is two parts:

1. I work at the host, and am confident in our overall backup strategy, and
2. My personal laptop has been out of commission for about a year, where I normally save the backups

Now I’ll just move the backups to a syncthing share, and that should add in a bit of redundancy as well.

[maiki]

@maiki

Since the sites are backed up very often and I don’t need to restore uploads if a site goes down, it means I’m okay downloading a backup from each site, once a month.

To do this I’ll set a scheduled API call to activate the manual backup, which will then send me a PM as the admin on each site.

By triggering an API call on a schedule I’ll just get a link via email to download the backup. I should do this on all my Discourse sites to make it easy for me to do the thing.