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Status smeserver-affa 2.0.0, usage with SME 8.1; concepts for automatic backups

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turandot:
Hi there,

there are quite a number of errors on the bug tracker related to smeserver-affa, and the code is obviously unmaintained. The original author seems to depreciate the use of SME, see e.g. http://affa.sourceforge.net/ or http://wiki.nikoforge.org/How_to_move_Affa_from_SME-Server_to_a_Server_with_Affa_V3 .

Affa on SME is still useful and saved one of my SME installations a month ago using this HowTo http://wiki.contribs.org/Moving_SME_to_new_Hardware . I was just able to retrieve a backup before the HDD of my SME 8.1 failed completely  :grin:

I am currently evaluating new concepts to regularly and automatically backup my SMEs. Affa would be a great candidate, but what about the prominent warning here http://wiki.contribs.org/Affa "Warning: This code is deprecated and unmaintained. smeserver-affa has a waiting list of 32 open bugs . And a lot of unpredictable bugs are associated or related with the use of Affa after restoration or rise, such as missing groups, service crash, CGI errors" ?

Pros I see:

* certain success stories like mine, see above
* ease of use
* Affa 3 probably portable to SME, runs on CentOS
Cons from my perspective:

* Affa 2 for SME is unmaintained
* author seems to have moved away from SME
* not too much discussions on http://sourceforge.net/p/affa/discussion/ : is Affa 3 unmaintained as well?
What kind of solution for automated backups would you recommend? Would you still favor smeserver-affa 2.0.0?

Regards, turandot

stephdl:
test affa 3 -> http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7633

turandot:
Wow... I wasn't aware about this bug tracker item.

I will thoroughly go through it in the next days. May be I can contribute by testing etc.

Thanks a lot,

turandot

turandot:
Just wanted to let you know that Affa 3 works on SME 8.1 as expected in general, see http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7633 , as well as using an SME server to backup another SME server. See http://forums.contribs.org/index.php/topic,51040.0.html for more details how I did that.

Thanks,

turandot

janet:
turandot

What is wrong with using the built in backup (to workstation) in server manager to either a locally connected USB drive or a network share (workstation or NAS).
I realise it does not have the same feature set as Affa (eg rise feature, & ability to quickly rise a backup server to production status).
The built in backup using dar is fully supported by sme core developers.

For an alternative that is used by sme server professional support personnel, & can backup locally or remotely via ssh, see
http://wiki.contribs.org/Rdiff-backup

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