Re: [Nolug] Backing up linux

Dustin,

Do you have a recommended box you find works well w/ BackupPC? Or do you
just use whatever box is available? I ask because I planning to setup a
BackupPC for a smallish LAN in the near future.

Thanks,
Jonathan

On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 7:53 AM, Dustin Puryear <dustin@puryear-it.com>
wrote:

> I've never been a big a fan of the 'local tar via crontab' approach.
> What about using something like BackupPC? It's much smarter in the way
> it uses disk space, can use rsync, and works on- or off-site. We use it
> all the time. Also, you can setup pre- and post-jobs for things like
> running mysqldump.
>
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> 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.
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