Yesterday evening I kicked off the weekly housekeeping back up processes. You know how it goes:
- Log in to the cpanel of every website I look after
- Download copies of every MySQL database
- Compress every website front-end into a zipped archive on the webserver
- FTP the zipped archives direct to the NAS
- Compress every software application on my laptop to a zipped archive
- FTP the software zipped archive to the NAS
- Compress every datafile on my laptop to a zipped archive
- FTP the data zipped archive to the NAS
It doesn’t take that long. Our download speed is 1Gb/s, so the database downloads are instant, and all the heavy-lifting of the front-end compression is done on the remote servers. But I was thinking last night that if I CBA I’d write some whizzy stuff to automate it all every Sunday evening.
I’ll just add that to my list of outstanding tasks.
Probably only took you 40 minutes to do all that, but whizzy automation has to be the way forward, I reckon.
I’m all for the automation but probably because I like to receive the activity reports and get a warm glow 🙂