Create a backup solution for Cloud Sites
Build a backup solution for Cloud Sites that will allow us to back up per domain to either Cloud Files or S3.
Scott
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Jereme
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I have just finished adding auto backup to Cloud Files via the Cloud Files API. Again you can get it here.
Just hope that someone will find it useful.
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Jereme
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I have put together a script to backup files/databases in Cloud Sites. You can get it free from http://www.zipitbackup.com
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Peter Evans
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2 more options for Wordpress users: managewp.com and wpremote.com
ManageWP is extremely feature rich but with a price to match. WPRemote is free but in its infancy, though it does look promising. -
Hubert Nguyen commented
If someone tries Codeguard on a big site, I'm always curious about backup stuff
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Matt Lundberg
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+3 (I would use all 15 votes if I could) - The one missing feature on Cloud Sites that keeps making me wonder if I should switch to another platform... am tired of not even having a simple backup mechanism built-in. Not being able to tap into S3, or even RS solutions JungleDisk or Cloud Files, adds insult to injury. Thanks for posting about CodeGuard, looks very promising.
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Scott
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Hoping you can just make an automated backup and restore feature. That would be most helpful, and is really needed for this product!
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Anonymous
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CodeGuard handles both your site code and DB. They just added a Wordpress plugin.
I've been testing out the WP plugin, and so far its worked well.
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Colin Learmonth
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Here's another third party service that caught my eye, https://codeguard.com/ . No experience with them but found while looking for options.
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Geoff Towle commented
I just found myrepono.com. Looks promising and will likely suit our needs. Wondering if anyone has experience with MyRepono or similar/better service.
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Jonathon, I looked at them too for other purposes, but just to clarify, they do not have anything remotely like CloudSites.
To clarify, CloudSites is a multi-server environment that can elastically scale the number of Apache web servers that deliver your pages. They all connect to a shared storage over NFS, which has no limit in storage, as far as I can tell (maybe the # of files per directory is limited to the OS capabilities). This means that CloudSites will dynamically add Apache servers as your traffic climbs, without any intervention from you, and it's all managed for you by Rackspace.
It's not completely scalable however. Your database is sharing the same server then many others, and as far as I can see all Cloudsites websites are spread among more than 100 Mysql servers, but you can be hit by a neighboring site that does something heavy with the server.
Storm on demand is a completely different product which basically looks like Rackspace CloudServers or Amazon AWS in terms of compute instances. In any case, if I missed a CloudSites-like feature, let me know, because I'm always curious about what's on the market. Let me know.
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Jonathon
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Hubert, I was looking at the https://www.stormondemand.com/servers/ product. This is a busy time of year for me, but I hope to start migrating sites this summer.
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Dawn McCarroll
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The work arounds are all well and good and I use a couple, but they do not address the need for integrated backup on cloud sites. I don't really want to hear about them. I want to hear what Rackspace is doing to address this. JMHO thanks.
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For Wordpress users, I recommend VaultPress. It's expensive for small sites, but it is the only backup system that works for me. They save by small chunks and can access via FTP and have Direct MySQL access as well. The downsides: restores can be very long for big sites. Good luck all.
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dtb71
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This continues to be Fanatically Absurd ! Backups is a fundamental product offering -- and it's been LACKING forever. Obviously customers want it (we expected it) and now this request has over 1,000 votes... WHEN will this feature be delivered? RS: some communication here is required, ie a roadmap
something simple like (mt) has would be better than nothing!
http://mediatemple.net/roadmap/ -
Jonathon, I checked them out, but did not see an equivalent to CloudSites. Which StormOnDemand product are you referring to?
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Jonathon
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Someone previously mentioned their positive experience with Storm on Demand so I thought I would check them out. I just completed a chat with them (https://www.stormondemand.com/) to learn more about their offerings. They offer a similar product to Cloud Sites which has backup included. They offer a lot of options for how often you backup and how instances are retained. The only flaw I could see is you can’t handle restores from the control panel but rather have to ask support to restore a domain and then they handle it. Given the silence and only occasional corporate-speak from Rackspace, the time has come for a move. It’s a tedious process but to save money AND get more features, the long-term payoff appears well worth it. If anyone has any experience with them, any isights are appreciated.
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Lucas Shaffer commented
Make this happen.
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Brad Marcoux
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PLEASSSEEE - implement this. Great tools otherwise, but without easy backups, it's a huge pain to set up for each site. Should be priority #1 for Rackspace.
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Mark Schlaudraff
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This has been under review now for almost two years, how much longer?
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If you are considering MediaTemple Grid, Erick Baum is right: it works for a bunch of small sites, but a busier site (500k views/mo?) won't. In any case, in terms of Apache/PHP, there is no comparison between MT's Grid and RS CloudSites, the latter wins hands-down.
That said, CloudSites does get into trouble because of the time-outs (no suitable nodes), which can be scary if your app has pages that do take a long time to execute. And finally, you can always go to a VPS or Cloud Server, but you'll have to scale it yourself. I have not seen a perfect solution.
