[Opensim-users] AutoBackupModule configuration

[Marcus Llewellyn]

On 3/28/2013 9:26 PM, Justin Clark-Casey wrote:
> This code was donated a while ago but I'm not sure if it works, and no 
> fixes have been submitted.
>
> To be honest, though I originally put it in, I'm not sure now whether 
> it's appropriate for core, as any backups taken by this method except 
> at extremely long intervals are quickly going to be enormous (unless 
> one keeps deleting the old ones, which would kind of negate the whole 
> point).
>
> I would be interested to know people's thoughts on this.

Personally, I prefer handling OAR backups myself through remote admin 
with bash/powershell scripts scheduled via cron/task scheduler. This 
allows me a great deal more flexibility than any reasonable core module 
designed for the purpose would.

For example, I have a single script on one machine that runs twice a 
day. It makes use of a CSV formatted file to iterate through all of my 
simulators, issues the admin_save_oar command via RemoteAdmin, and then 
stores them in a backup location. An ancillary script periodically 
checks the dates on these OARs and removes stale ones, ultimately 
preserving only one from each previous month. I use a similar strategy 
for SQL dumps.

This is how I do it, and I easily imagine other people would prefer to 
handle it in other ways. People are just gonna have to belly up and 
automate this themselves for good maintenance, and to suit their 
preferences. A core module might be an easy shortcut, and it certainly 
doesn't keep people like me from doing it like I do it, but ultimately 
sim operators have to get hands on at some point to do it right.

Marcus