Wanted offsite FTP backup for indie wiki.

[ErikH2000]

I would like to run a daily backup of the indie wiki site (http://www.indiewiki.org) to store the data on another site. This is to protect against malicious edits or problems with the hosting provider. A ton of stuff has been written there already by different people, and I think I better do something to make it properly safe.

My backup plan is:
1. Each day run a script that backs up the wiki database into one file named after the day of the week, i.e. "Monday-Indiewikie-Backup.mysql".
2. The script would log in to somebody's FTP server and write the file there, overwriting an existing backup file of the same day for the previous week if existing.

So at any given point in time there would be the last seven days of wiki backed up, which is enough time to catch somebody's trashing and roll the wiki back. I'm guessing this needs about 20mb max of FTP storage, but I should probably check on that.

Is anyone interested in providing an FTP login for me to do this? If nobody is, I will probably just do a local backup which is not quite so good as offsite. It might seem silly to worry about offsite backups, but I'm paranoid here from a past experience getting locked out of my hosting account. Aw man, I'm getting all angry again just thinking about it!

-Erik

[MattInglot]

I can donate some space for this on Lizardsoft Hosting (http://www.lizardnetwork.com). Just PM me and I'll setup an FTP account for you.

In fact if anyone wants to buy bandwidth super cheap for file hosting, I'm offering it in lots of 100GB for $20/month on a spare server that is currrently drastically under-used. Not oversold. Only catch is that it's really just some space on a server, you won't get e-mail or a fancy control panel, or any scripting languages. It's just there for file hosting. Raw logs are available and I can try configuring Urchin. The actual connection is terrific and the server itself is nice and fast. Offer only available for up to 10 people, as there's only a terabyte of bandwidth available to that server.

[Bluecat]

It might seem silly to worry about offsite backups, but I'm paranoid here from a past experience getting locked out of my hosting account. Aw man, I'm getting all angry again just thinking about it!

-Erik
Not silly at all. The c2 wiki (Ward Cunninghams from memory) suffered a very nasty incident where a disgruntled and very disturbed individual systematically went through and deleted tons of useful info. Simply because he didn't agree with the content. IIRC, they had backups so all was not lost. So yes, good idea to back it up.

[Lyion]

I'd be willing to host it also if you'd like.

Lyion

[ErikH2000]

I forgot about this for a while and then came back to it. Lyion was going to set me up at one point, but I think he got busy. No problem. Anyhow, I have the wiki backed up offsite now. So stop losing sleep over it. :)

-Erik