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

Thank you Jerome for concisely explaining how the list,
the website and the blog work.
Thank you also for all the work you do on the website.
And thanks no less to Bruce and Edgar for all their work.

We are fortunate to have three people who generously give of their time
and patience to support and maintain this list, its website and blog.
Many thanks to the three of you,

Mimi
On Feb 2, 2013, at 1:58 PM, jerome schatten wrote:

> 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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