As some of you know, some of us (mostly smooge and I) have been working
on statistics gathering for Fedora web infra as of late.
We are working on setting up a piwik instance to be used on our
websites. However, this instance lives in the cloud and thus can't hit
the VPN.
A question I ran into and was told to email the list about and/or bring
up at the meeting, is: What should our backups story look like for such
cases? Mostly, we have a MySQL database on this node that will get
really big fairly quickly (right now /var/lib/mysql is about 1.1GB and
piwik only has one site added, and it's only been there for a few weeks).
Are other cloud instances backed up in any way, and if so how was it
done? If not, how do we go about coming up with a plan for doing this,
for this instance and other instances in the future that end up having
similar requirements?
(Smooge can weigh in if I'm forgetting any important details here).
-Ricky