I'm thinking of ordering a RAQ from RackShack. By looking at things (and reading a lot on this forum) I've learned quite a bit.

My question is related to backups. I know that backups packages are installed on the RAQ, but that only backups up to the local hard drive. It's the same hard drive where everything else is located. How do people go about getting tape/off-site backups.

Thanks,

Frank

I don't know about other people's experiences, but I recommend you don't use the ".pkg" format. A Cobalt that was hosted here a few months ago crashed. Luckily we had 5 .pkg backups, but they were so large that it was impossile to unpackage them via their web interface. Maybe there was a way to do it via a Cobalt command, but the customer instead reverted to a backup tarball that we also kept.

I recommend either getting one of the tapedrives that RaQ's can hook up to, or getting a high space virtual account somewhere and setup a cronjob to continously backup a tarball of your important files everynight.

I really hopes someone can come up with a decent solution to this soon, because i'm getting nightmares thinking i have to setup manually every site on the raq after a crash.

I would be happy if it could restore all users, domain, passwords, etc. all the admin settings,

I let my users make their own backups, so if i had a script that would save me 2 days of work, they can put their sites right back.

Has anyone used iBackup?
www.ibackup.com
They offer an array of packages starting at ~$100/year for 500MB. A 2GB package is $324/year. You could simply ftp your tarballs or pkg files to this site. I currently use a friends server for my backups and he uses mine.

Perhaps, we need a "backup exchange" for the raqs. -- I give you a gig of my disk and you give me a gig of yours. ;)

I have space at TB, but i wouldn't know what and how to backup or create a tarball.