everarch should make backups quick and painless. This chapter lists the things you must not forget for a complete backup.
everarch stores the user data in buckets managed by a evr-glacier-storage instance. This is not only true for your main instance but also for your backup. The GPG keys used for signing claims are stored in GPG. The public part of the GPG keys should also be backed up.
The evr-backup command line tool makes setting up any synchronizing the main and the backup easy. evr-backup expects a source evr-glacier-storage server with it’s hostname and port. The destination of the backup is expected to be a directory in the file system.
Running evr-backup will by default copy all blobs from the main instance into the backup directory. Also public GPG keys will be exported into the backup directory.
evr-backup can also perform two-way synchronization. Corrupted blobs lost within the main instance will be replaced with good copies from the backup. Two-way synchronization is turned on via the evr-backup option –two-way.