UpdraftPlus Plugin: Restoring a Site from Backup

In the post WordPress: A Disaster Recovery Strategy, I didn’t describe the restore phase. Well, it just so happened that I lost a development site mockup.udance.com.au while isolating an issue between the Simple Calendar plugin and the Pen theme (see post WordPress: Pen Theme 1.3.9 and Simple Calendar Plugin 3.1.33 Anomaly). When switching between themes, …
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Replication failure

This has happened to me a couple of times now, so I thought I’d document it. TrueCommand has indicated that replication is failing on my main server for a particular dataset. Now, I know I’ve been messing around quite a bit with WordPress, rebuilding jails and associated datasets. The UDance WordPress site has been problematical …
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WordPress: A Disaster Recovery Strategy

The infographic below describes a streamlined approach to WordPress disaster recovery that minimises the room for error, and maximises the chances of fully restoring a WordPress site under a wide range of WordPress disaster scenarios. I’ve tested the approach against my own blog site and apart from a minor tweak of WP Super Cache, a WordPress …
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WordPress Plugin: A Marriage made in Heaven for UpdraftPlus and FreeNAS

The goal here is to use FreeNAS storage to store UpdraftPlus backups of WordPress sites. Local user authentication is assumed for FreeNAS. Outline of the basic steps: A. Set up the UpdraftPlus storage root. Set aside storage space on FreeNAS for UpdraftPlus. Create the UpdraftPlus user and group on FreeNAS. Configure and start the FTP …
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Resilio Sync Setup for IOS 8+ Clients (revised)

Intended Audience This post will be of interest if you want to use Resilio Sync to back up the camera folder on IOS 8+ clients to a modern FreeNAS server (version 11.2 and above). An earlier version of this post using a legacy FreeNAS server (version 11.1 or below) can be found here. Assumptions The …
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FreeNAS Standby Server Considerations

Case Study Consider a small business that employs predominantly Windows PCs. The business doesn’t have a lot of cash to throw at hardware or software, but still wants to maximise business continuity by minimising system downtime. A couple of FreeNAS servers are considered as file servers; one active, the other on cold standby (ie. no …
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Resilio Sync Setup for OS X 10.8+ Clients (revised)

You will need to setup the sync server first. The instruction here is for setting up sync client software on Android devices to backup important data from them on to the server. The app screens that follow are from the following version of the sync client:   Step 1: Install and start the sync client. When starting […]

Resilio Sync Setup for Android 4+ Clients (revised)

Intended Audience This post will be of interest if you want to use Resilio Sync to selectively back up folders on Android 4+ clients to a modern FreeNAS server (version 11.2 and below). An earlier version of this post using a legacy FreeNAS server (version 11.1 or below) can be found here. Assumptions The reader …
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Resilio Sync Setup for Windows 7+ Clients (revised)

You will need to setup the sync server first. The instruction here is for setting up sync client software on Android devices to backup important data from them on to the server. The app screens that follow are from the following version of the sync client:   Step 1: Install and start the sync client. When starting […]

Advanced Resilio Sync Setup for FreeNAS (revised)

The objective here is to set up an automated backup of key user data from various devices such as phones, tablets and desktops into a central repository on a FreeNAS server. The repository should be readable to personnel responsible for recovering data for users. but should not accessible to anyone else. This will maximise the […]