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Hi All,

I'd like to run a nightly site backup. I can achieve this on the command line with a command like
/usr/bin/drush -y --root='/var/www/aegir/path-to-drupal' 'provision' 'backup' 'example.com'

However, the backup doesn't show up in the Aegir admin for this site (not surprisingly I guess given that I did the backup from the command line).

The question is then - how can I achieve this? Backup on the command line or otherwise nightly and be able to restore from the Aegir admin. Is there a way to schedule backups in Aegir?

I'm writing about the current status of using Aegir to manage Drupal installs across multiple servers/VPSes.

I've followed the documentation to install Aegir 0.4 on one VPS (http://groups.drupal.org/node/25495), and confirmed that I could setup a new site on that VPS. That was a very easy process, so thanks to everyone who is supporting this system.

I know that Aegir states that Windows is not supported. However, has anyone has tried using it via Cygwin on a WAMP server? I suppose it would be much more likely to work if everything was in a Cygwin environment (i.e. Apache, PHP, and MySQL all running in Cygwin), but my setup uses native Windows installs of these.

Thought I'd ask before giving it a try....

While @ Drupalcamp Montreal I gave a talk on the Network Manager and how it's helping us manage our sites (see screencasts for usage). Right afterwards I (finally) was able to watch someone walk through everything that Aegir provides. I realize that Aegir is more hosting company in a box focused and my project is for things much smaller in scope (some overlap but totally different context of usage). I was wondering though if there might be a way of tying some of the functionality of the network manager into Aegir.

Hi

I tried to install aegir on ubuntu via the shell script. (On an ubuntu 9.04 VMWare image)
First question: in the wiki they mention to "su - aegir" to run the script instead of "sudo". But how can you do it when the aegir user isn't created yet (this is done in the script).

So i did sudo sh install.sh. Everything went fine, I tried to install the domain "aegir.local". After the installation, I'm not able to reach aegir.local. (firefox says address not found) What do I need to do?

Thanks for your help...

Hi all,

I just wanted to share my experience migrating an existing site to Aegir, in the hope that others will find it illuminating and it will help them avoid some of the pitfalls I encountered.

So other than some time I spent on a cleaner user interface for tasks last night, I also sat down with mig5 and anarcat to figure out what our next few weeks of goals are going to be.

Now that we have moved towards using drush make, we can finally start using some external modules that provide useful functionality to the hosting front end, obviously with the goal still to keep them to a minimum, but if they are reliable we should be able to use them.

Hello,

I've installed Ægir into Ubuntu server ( latest version, Jaunty? running in VMware on OSX), using the install script. Ægir installed and configured fine and i can create sites, but i'm having trouble viewing the sites because of ( what i'm guessing is) my DNS settings.

The Aegir team is happy to present the second alpha release of the 0.4 milestone. Like the first alpha, this is a "developer preview" release following the hugely popular 0.3 release, which includes many bug fixes to alpha1, along with a stack of exciting new features. While we are in alpha stage with 0.4, we recommend that production system continue to use the 0.3 stable release for now. However, many important bug fixes did make it into this alpha, so we encourage you to check it out however way you can.

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