Re: [Nolug] Backing up linux

On Thursday 14 February 2008 07:23:43 pm Chris Jones wrote:
> I have a client that's needing to back up their linux web servers, so I'm
> thinking of recommending an additional server. Set it up as an NFS server,
> and let the other servers mount it.
>
> Write a bash script to essentially:
> use mysqldump to dump the databases to files
> tar/gz the web folder, email folders, and probably /etc to a file on the
> NFS put the date into the filenames it generates, and have it delete
> backups that are over, say 14 days old
>
> And then put the script into cron to run daily, every 6 hours, or
> whatever...
>
>
>
> Is this a good solution? Does anybody know a better way? Can this be done
> on a live system, without having to take everything offline first?
>
> Eventually they might want to do offsite backup and have hot spare servers
> in a data center somewhere that they could use for disaster recovery, I'm
> thinking rsync would be perfect if this need arises.

That's the kind of stuff I do. I'm sure there are comprehensive packages out
there to do everything for you, but I'm more of a homegrown man.

-- 
Joey Kelly
< Minister of the Gospel | Linux Consultant >
http://joeykelly.net

___________________
Nolug mailing list
nolug@nolug.org