On backups and drives

Online content is more and more added directly to servers, so there is no local version. Think uploaded files, think content management systems.

As a consequence, server data backup is getting even more important than before.

You can back up on the same server, or better on a different drive. Not good enough - your HD might break, you lose access to the server for whatever reason, the server room might get destroyed in an earthquake.

Date and location

Date start: 

20080718

Place: 

Brussel

Country: 

België

Accumulated, I've spent days trying to solve this problem, so now that I've found a solution I am posting it to help others.

I was setting up Drupal multisites on a CentOS 5 system under Plesk 8.2, and the only practical way to do that in such configuration is to use Plesk's excellent system of domain aliases. The only problem was in current Plesk there is no way of assigning e-mail addresses to alias domains. And I needed them badly, for some of them.

Date and location

Date start: 

20080420

Place: 

Brussel

Country: 

België