The nightly backups will return within 24 hours. The CVS server
will be up by Friday at the latest. It's a bit more difficult to move
over CVS with all of its users than it is to move over a neat little
PG dump file :) Sorry for the delay on that.
As for our general strategy for backups and such. The new
OpenACS box runs hardware RAID 1 (straight mirroring) on
hot-swappable drives, and has redundant power supplies. Thus,
we are safe from the most common type of failure.
We are preparing a backup plan much like the one described
above, where mirrors would exist on the OpenACS site. We'll
start with mirrors of the OpenACS downloads. Later on, what
we'd really like to do is use the PostgreSQL replication options to
do complete mirroring. Probably the asynchronous one-way
replication to start, given that we don't want network issues to get
in the way of database commits. So a plan is in the works. We'll
get that information out to everyone ASAP.
