Re: [cobalt-developers] Backups - Newbie

["Lennie Core" <lcore@xxxxxxxx>]

Here's what I did !

I installed a second drive in my RAQ3, It was easy and linux 
picked it up, mounted it and asked for a name for it.

Then I used a spare IP that I had and setup a fake domain name for 
it on the second drive.  This way, I go to my admin on the raq and 
maintenance, created a scheduled backup, and have it ftp to the 
second drive IP address.  It only takes a few mins for a full backup 
of the RAq, however, I'm still shakey about what would happen 
when I need to use the reverse to recover from a home drive failure.

I have about 3 gigs worth of sites on my box, and the .raq backup 
file that is created every day is around 255megs. I haven't found a 
way to view the contents of the backup, In fact I have juse the 
standard UI to create backups, then delete the site and try and use 
the standard backup to restore them, you can see all of the files, 
but they restore with lots of errors..  

I don't really think this method is dependable, but for now at least 
it's something..  

What is happening is that the previous days backup file is also 
being encluded in the next days backup, so I have to ftp to the 
second drive and delete the previous days file ... It's a pain, and I 
would like to know if there's a switch for the backup.cgi on the box 
that would exclude backing up the second drive.  I have looked 
close at the backup.cgi and don't see anything relative to that.

All responses will be appreciated..

Blessings, Lennie Core


> /usr/admserv/cgi-bin/.cobalt/backup/backup.cgi -b complete -t
> complete -p ftp -r "ftp://backup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/"; -s 420  --
> password 'xxxxxx'

wow...I've never seen this used that way Can you tell I'm new to RAQ's ?
;)

Anyway...following the above example...can someone throw up here way to
backup the RAQ 3 TO the RAQ 3?

Let me try and you tell me if I'm right/wrong...what to fix...

/usr/admserv/cgi-bin/.cobalt/backup/backup.cgi -b complete -t
complete -p ftp -r "ftp://admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx/"; -s 420  --
password 'xxxxxx'

Also... Is the above for a full backup of everything? I would like to
see how that would look! :)

Thanks to all of you ahead;

Brian Foy Jr.


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