[Cz-L] Resilience of the Website...

Resilience -> Recovery from Disaster

Indeed, the entire website is backed up about every two months; the
Archives, which is really the collective memory of this group, are
backed up when they are updated (every time we hit 100-150 new messages)
or at least once a week.

The Archives change rapidly; the Website quite slowly in comparison. It
takes six hours or more to do an entire backup of the website with its
over 55,000 files. It is done overnight.

The entire website, including the Archives, fits on one DVD and that's
where my backups end up -- on a DVD. So the backup is a 'snapshot' of
everything on the website at that moment in time when the backup is
started.

The backup is readable on any computer with a DVD drive. Playing that
DVD is just like looking at the website on the Internet: all the
internal links work without being connected to the net. All the photos,
stories... etc. are there. The backup plays just as the Internet plays,
only faster.

The server which hosts the Ehpes website and the blog is run by Yahoo
Web-hosting. They back up everything on their servers continuously, but
that is for their own use in case their servers fail; we are still
responsible for our own backups. We pay for the domain name 'ehpes.com'
and the use of Yahoo's servers.

Because of our backups, our website could be transferred to another
hosting site in a matter of hours and be running again.

The Blog is now maintained by Edgar, and he does Blog backups. I
believe there is a 'mirror' blog, so the mirror can be immediately
pressed into service if we lost our server.

There is nothing to do with the website or blog stored at Cornell.
Cornell's function is to receive the List's mail and distribute it to
the members of this group after moderation. Bruce may have an archival
backup of the the list's traffic too, I'm not sure.

Although not a perfect system, it is a reasonable one, given the
resources available. Over the past ten years, it has proven to be quite
robust. In every disaster, some history is inevitably lost.

On my 'To-do' list is to send copies of the backup dvd's as they are
made, to Bruce and Edgar.

At the end of the day, Bruce manages the List; Edgar manages the Blog;
and Jerome manages the Website. Bruce and Jerome moderate the List.
That's pretty much how Ehpes works at the moment.

Best,
jerome

On Sat, 2013-02-02 at 11:25 +0200, yosi-jerry wrote:
> Maybe. But as far as I know our our gatekeepers Bruce, and Jerome they
have
> the material backed-up.
> Yossi
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET>
> To: "yosi-jerry" <eshet1_at_netvision.net.il>; "Jacob Greenberg"
> <grs_software_at_bigpond.com>; <lapidotm_at_inter.net.il>
> Cc: <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
> Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2013 9:58 AM
> Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Resilience
>
>
> > Maybe there will
> >> come sometime when an historian will write an objective research
based on
> >> what we wrote here.
> >
> > Or somebody at Cornell will hit a wrong key and all the magic will
be
> > gone....
> >
> > Hardy

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