[Tracker-discuss] Backups and our other sysadmin

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> Our other sysadmin has asked to be added to the meta-tracker so he will
> also receive tracker related issues. His email address is
> gareth at upfrontsystems.co.za.

If he creates an account on the meta tracker, we can try to remember to
assign any issues that affect upfront to him. Or else, as Brett
suggests, he can subscribe to tracker-discss, which gets all messages
(plus then some discussion, which he could filter out).

> He's asked me to inquire about backing up the postgresql database. We'd
> prefer to back it up using pg_dump, but another option would be to allow
> you guys to dump the database to a directory which we can back up. Which
> would you prefer?

There is already a cron job which creates daily dumps of the roundup
data - so if you do file-based backup, you already have them.

OTOH, I think I would also prefer pg_dumpall (sic). If it's unacceptable
to have them both, we can kill the cronjobs which create the files once
a day (they are in roundup's crontab).

In any case, we *do* want to have file backup also, because the files
and messages aren't actually stored in the database.

Regards,
Martin