@Nini: Our backup methods are a little more stringent here. They are daily, automatic, and pushed to different physical hardware. We retain at least 30 days, but usually 60 days of backups for this system. That includes the OS, apps, blog, logs, performance data, blog DB and static web files. All are very well backed up. I take the blog software down during the backup window every day to ensure ZERO database corruption.
Last night’s blog server backup took …
ElapsedTime 80.53 (1 minute 20.53 seconds)
The service interruption was probably only 45 seconds.
Typo has been more stable recently, but it still does run into a too many open files issue every few weeks which locks 1 instance of the typo app up. A reboot is usually needed to fix it. My searches point that bug in the directions of Rails.
Many of the blog software elements have been updated to current levels since this article was written. For example, nginx is running the latest stable version always now – something in the 1.2.x range, I believe. Thin is working well too.
