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I once wrote an Aegir bulk backup script that was pretty rudimentary, (although popular for some reason): it interrogated the Apache vhosts of your Aegir system and generated a 'provision-backup' task against each site that it found.

The result was a tarball of the site files and database dump in your /var/aegir/backups directory.

It worked pretty well for its time, other than the issue that plagued us in those days: tasks like provision-backup, which were solely 'backend only', were unable to be fetched from the frontend.

I've been playing with RackSpace Cloud lately and so far I've been quite impressed. The price is quite competitive, the network seems quite stable and performance is no issue. Plus: persistent storage in the cloud, out of the box! Awesome.

The support has been good (I had a routing issue on privatenet interfaces between two servers, which I was certain was either at the network or hypervisor layer and not my firewall. The engineers and I ran through the usual tests til it was assumed a hypervisor routing issue with this particular guest, which a reboot of the guest fixed).