So, we're back from a bit of an unscheduled break for my web server. The hosting company had a bit of a problem with disks, so my VM has been out of action for a week or so.
Luckily, my backups worked pretty well so minimal content lost. I'm using the rather unorthodox backup over SMTP, which seems to work pretty well for smaller files. I knocked up a ruby class called Rbackup and just have a script running in cron nightly...
Actually had a trio of hardware failures over the festive period (2 hard disks and a graphics card), which just goes to show that checking backups (and restores!) is very important and not to be put off...
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