Re: [Sks-devel] Request for gossip / Some questions

[Chris Kuethe]

On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Yaron Minsky wrote:

> > *) How are you backing up the key database to minimize the downtime?
> 
> There's been some discussion on the list about this.  There are some
> problems with doing a back-up while the system is live.  Probably the best
> thing is to write a script that:
> 
>    - stop the sks daemons with kill (both sks db and sks recon. )
>    - wait until both daemons actually stop
>    - copy the relevant DB files
>    - restart the daemons
> 

Even better, once your primary sks instance is sync'd, shut it down and
clone it to a second instance. Set the secondary to only sync with the
primary and the primary to allow syncs from the secondary as well. Then
start them both up.

When it comes time for backups, shut down your secondary, do your backup,
make a keydump, whatever, and then restart it. It shouldn't be very far
out of date, and because it's syncing with localhost, it'll sync very fast.

Just haven't got around to setting that up yet.

CK

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