Nothing’s ever safe and stable on the ‘net. You can have the most expensive servers money can buy, the best broadband service on the ‘net, and the most high-end computer in the market but your system is still prone to crashes. That’s why a good knowledge on making backups is a must.
Just a tip, because I’ve finally bumped into an issue with this on one of my servers.
Backup_fu first dumps files to RAILS_ROOT/tmp/backup. This is nice and all to have a local copy of the backup … but it never does any cleaning out.
If you are looking for a solution that handles cleaning up old backups, I believe you can Google around and there are some out there like that.
What I will probably do going forward is create a reminder for myself via Backpack or iCal each month to A) check on the backups in Amazon S3, and B) clean out tmp/backup in the rails apps, especially ones where the backups push 1, 2, 3 gigs a pop.
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