System Backup

[h2d]

Currently im in a position where i cant ran a raid setup so i need to take nightly snapshots of my system in the event i have to restore it back to its original state.

Has anyone written a custom script to do there own backups?

Can i restore the system to the same state it was of the last backup?

Reinstalling the the base system, getting directadmin up and running on the system and then;

a. Restoring the entire database structure
b. Restoring all of /home/
c. Restoring all of /etc/
d. Restoring all of /var/
e. Restoring /usr/local/directadmin/data

Is there anything else i need to do to restore the system, and will this actually work ?

Thanks !

 

[nobaloney]

The DA System Backup (sysbk) facility will back up all the directories you'll need, but it doesn't include any restore capability.

Jeff

 

[h2d]

The DA System Backup (sysbk) facility will back up all the directories you'll need, but it doesn't include any restore capability.

Jeff

Yea thats why i would prefer to backup everything i need myself and write my own scripts to restore it if the need arised.

There is all directorys with with 30+ gigs of data i dont want to back up, i dont believe the system backup options lets you ignore directories for backup?

 

[nobaloney]

No, it doesn't. You can define the directories you want to backup so that the ones you don't want backed up won't get backed up.

sysbk is a great tool if you can use it; then all you need to write is the restore procedure.

Jeff

 

[h2d]

No, it doesn't. You can define the directories you want to backup so that the ones you don't want backed up won't get backed up.

sysbk is a great tool if you can use it; then all you need to write is the restore procedure.

Jeff

Yea i would need to explicitly add each /home/$USER/ everytime a user was added to the system, to avoid backing up stuff i wanted.


My scripts i have already written work fine, however i dont know if im backing up all the information i will need to do a restore.
hmm

 

[nobaloney]

I think you can figure that out by comparing what you backup vs what sysbk backs up.

And of course do a test restore to a testbed system to make sure.

Jeff

 

[h2d]

I think you can figure that out by comparing what you backup vs what sysbk backs up.

And of course do a test restore to a testbed system to make sure.

Jeff

yea i guess your right

Any idea where i could get access to a testbed , otherwise its rent a server for a month

 

[nobaloney]

We sometimes have testbed servers running CentOS available, but we don't right now . Perhaps someone else can volunteer.

Jeff