Category: Puppet

One of my favorite backup tools has always been rsnapshot. It’s based off of rsync and uses a nice trick with hardlinks to maintain incremental updates that are also full updates. It runs using a basic configuration and a series of cron jobs. This is unix as it’s meant to be- extremely light weight while…

The amount and value of data stored on Github Enterprise servers is quite large, and backing them up is rather important. To keep people from doing desperate restores from cloned repositories Github has a tool for backing up and restoring GHE installs. To make this even easier I’ve put together a Puppet module that takes…