Backups

Backups that are running: what they are saving, where they are located, and how to restore them.

Web services

All backups are located on the Synology NAS, under IT Backups.

amaravati.org (WordPress)

We back up all the WordPress files and uploads (this is a fairly large folder, just over 150GB, as it contains all of our audio files) so if we need to migrate to another WordPress host, we can easily restore the data.

The script /home/itadmin/ on the Linux server is responsible for this backup and is ran via crontab every night. It:

• clones the WordPress files from Krystal via FTP to /data/backups/www.amaravati.org on the Linux server
• copies /data/backups/www.amaravati.org to the Synology NAS under /IT Backups/www.amaravati.org 

So we have technically two backups at all time

See also: Linux server

Monastery computers

MacOS

The Time Machine backups are located on the NAS in /Backup macOS/. When reinstalling a Mac, one can use ABMPitaka as a Time Machine source to restore the backup (hopefully!)

Some very old macOS backups, listed below, were removed from the NAS and uploaded to the "ABM IT" Shared drive, under /Backups/macOS

• ABM1-299-Anando.sparsebundle (Ajahn Anando's ridiculously old iMac)
  

Extra: Synology NAS config

Read this for rsync config without password prompt