#HC14S

2025-04-05

As I recently kind-of-partly messed up my log a bit (part of improving #wavelog, you may find the pr, fixed before merge ;)) I know about my log-backup quite well: There are nightly MariaDB dumps, which are part of a (deduplicated, versioned, compressed, encrypted) 'default' backup strategy of the server. The resulting backup archive has a 'sporadic' manual rotating offsite offline copy (read harddisks). Weak points: encryption key and software. @hamchallenge #HC14S

Fabian Kurz, DJ5CW/SO5CWDJ5CW@social.darc.de
2025-03-31

#hamchallenge Week 14: My #hamradio logbook #backup system is simple: My central log (to which I live-log contacts and import all my contest logs) is the console logger "YFKlog", which uses a MySQL database backend. It's running on a Hetzner VPS which creates nightly snapshots of the system disk that reach back seven days. In addition, a nightly cron-job creates a database dump which gets rsynced to another VPS in another datacenter. I also regularly upload my log to LoTW. #HC14S @hamchallenge

A screen shot of "YFKlog", a console logger, running in a xterm, showing the last few QSOs in the log of SO5CW: US6EM, DL3RDM, R9YM, ON100U, DL9ZOG (on 40m), etc. It also shows that currently a contact with 9A1A is getting entered, and it shows the previous contacts made with 9A1A (on various bands, on CW, SSB and RTTY).
Adam - K3CANme@social.k3can.us
2025-03-31

For this week's #hamchallenge : My primary logging software is #Wavelog. The webserver and backend database both run on virtualized machines in a #HighAvailability #Proxmox #cluster (same one that hosts this instance!). Those are backed up daily to another machine on site via PBS, then those backups are synced to a remote server running in a house in another city.

In addition, my log is also synced to both #QRZ and #LOTW every 6 hours or so, but I didn't think it qualifies as a true backup, since there is some data which those logs don't record.

#HC14S @hamchallenge #hamradio #amatuerradio

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