There are a number of backups taken of the Bridgewebs databases and documents. These are stored off-site and can be used in the event of a disaster.

User Backups

Additionally backups are taken that you can use to recover lost information or experiment.

• Weekly - A backup of all of the Bridgewebs sites is taken early (GMT) on Saturday morning
• Monthly - A backup of all of the Bridgewebs sites is taken early (GMT) on last Sunday of the month

These do take several hours to run, so it is not possible to predict what time that your club will be backed up.

To access these simply change the subdomain or www part of the web address for your club

• Weekly - from www to weekly
• Monthly - from www to monthly

You can use these backups to retrieve data that you might have accidentally or otherwise deleted from the live system. For News items, use Cut & Paste.

Alternatively, you can try things out on these backups without affecting the live sites probably best to use the monthly. Please note these will be automatically overwritten as above.

To recover data, depending on what it is, go into your web site. Open another Browser window, go into your web site and change the www.bridgewebs.com to either weekly.bridgewebs.com or monthly.bridgewebs.com.

Data Backups

Please note, these are in addition to off-site backups which would be used by Bridgewebs for Disaster recovery.

Bridgewebs also has a Backup server that could be used in the event of irretrievable outage of the main server.

Server Backup - Raid

For the techies among you, the server does have "Raid", also known as "Mirror", disks for additional security.

Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) is a means for storing data on multiple hard disks, then linking the disks so that the operating system on the server views them as a single entity. The Bridgewebs server does use provide RAID-1, meaning that there is an exact duplicate copy of your data on two separate hard drives in case one of them fails.  The RAID disk is continually and automatically updated.

This can be really useful if part of the disk fails. In which case when the system detects a disk error, it gracefully slows down, to avoid further issues and reports an issue until a human can intervene. At this stage the System Support will asses what the damage is and whether the disk is recoverable. On assessment, the "Live" and "Raid" disk will be removed and the "Good" disk will be physically copied to a new "Disk". On completion of this phase the new "Disk" will be returned to the server, checked out and "Raid" disk built again which can take several hours before the server is fully functional.