The backup system I was using (basically, dump everything into dated folders every night over SMB) was pretty wasteful of disc space and hard to find specific revisions in, so I’ve changed it to something more snazzy (Mercurial repositories).
And while I was on I made the server from scratch. As you do. (I did actually have valid reasons – I much prefer administering Arch to Debian, and the amount of things I ended up wanting to change (lighttpd to nginx, MySQL to MariaDB, move to btrfs…) meant it was as good an excuse as any to switch distro). Yay for that intoxicating new server smell. :D
I am having problems getting mysqldump to do so in table-sized chunks though, which would be a better fit for the revision-control-based backup system. It’s saying it can’t write to the file/folder (even when I made said folder chmod –R 0666). Any ideas?
