Re: Tarsnap backup case study wanted

[Philipp Riegger <lists@anderedomain.de>]

Hi,

On 02.01.2015 18:57, Michael W. Lucas wrote:
> I want to include some real-world application backups in my Tarsnap
> book. Given a couple good examples, I figure users can extrapolate
> their own backup scenarios.
> 
> I have one good example, my Wordpress sites. Fairly simple, but
> definitely a real-world database-driven application.
> 
> But I'm looking for a second interesting example. And am stumped. Most
> of the software I've worked with are database-driven web apps. So I'm
> reaching out to the community.
> 
> Do you have an interesting Tarsnap backup that's not a db-driven web
> app? What do you have to do to back it up?
> 
> Ideally I'd like something I can realistically reproduce in my lab, so
> that I can write from firsthand knowledge.

I only back up filesat the moment (/etc, /home, some dirs in /var) but I
would be interested in:

- backing up svn repositories using "svnadmin dump" (does something
  similar exist for git?)
- backing up mysql databases using mysql dumps (or the same with
  postgres)

Is anybody doing this? Now that I am reminded of these TODOs, I might
look into it this weekend...

Philipp