Make sure database backups abort on error
Fix backup sync
Only sync the database backup if pg_dump succeeds
Ubuntu 12.04 doesn't understand --preallocate
Use rsync preallocate files to avoid fragmentation Enable rsync preallocate to limit filesystem fragmentation of file creation. Enable rsync fuzzy where suitable to leverage diffing from existing files.
Remove arcfour (RC4) cipher no longer available in newer OpenSSH
Use /store/backup for the in progress db backup dump
Set internal rsync over ssh backups to use arcfour (rc4) for performance
Add a db::backup recipe to handle database backups