Backups

We don't back up anything except Spitfire, which is the /www disk and any MySQL-databases you might have . Furthermore, there are some cronjobs for individual projects (like the websites on Applejack) that move files around within Ponyland.

Managing your own backups with git

Please ensure you always use version control (e.g. git) for all your scripts/ source code and experimental configuration files; and that you push your code to a git remote such as our own gitlab instance or a public one like GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket, Codeberg or Sourcehut. This ensures you always have a backup and can roll back to any earlier version. Furthermore, it helps establish a provenance trail which is important for scientific reproducibility.

Note that git is not suitable for large data collections (e.g. big models, corpora, etc), you may need to ensure you have a separate backup solution.

Webapps

If you use Ponyland to host web applications, the situation is slightly different; see this page.