System Backup

[rldev]

I wonder what some of you are doing in terms of backup? I have had dirvish setup to backup almost the entire hard drive on my system and store it remotely. It makes it very easy for me to restore file from specific days. Do you see a problem with this in terms on restoring a DA user?

 

[nobaloney]

That depends on what you mean by restore a DA user.

You can't restore an entire user (including all references DA needs) by retoring files in a working system, because there are files which contain information about many users. So if you restore a user from yesterday, you'd overwrite any user added today.

We're very happying using sysbk (The DirectAdmin System Backup), because it gives us everything we need if/when we need to restore, but we never just automatically/mindlessly restore. We always look carefully at system files to see what in them needs to be restored.

Why not just do user backups or reseller backups?

Jeff

 

[rldev]

Because I want to be able to restore a server if it is hacked or a raid array fails. I basically want an image of the server. There is also the issue of storage space and bandwidth via DA's system. Maybe I need to combine both.

 

[nobaloney]

The only space issue with sysbk is that you have to have as much space available in /home as the largest domain you've got will compress to.

If you're going to restore to the same OS/distribution/update version, then you can restore all the directories and files in the sysbk backup directly to your server.

Warning:
Be sure to test first, before need.

Jeff