Re: [cobalt-users] Backupping on another server

[shimi <shimi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, DenIT Internet Services [Thijs] wrote:

> Dear list,
> 
> I was wondering if anyone had a good tool for backing a servers complete
> /home content onto another server. For instance, backing up xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> to yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy so I get something like a tar file with complete /home
> content on yyy.etc :)
> 
> Thanks for all the help!
> 
> Thijs

Well doing what you want to do is quite simple, the question is if you'll
really want it ON COBALTS.

If you have the exact same users on both machine (i am not sure if that
includes uid's or not, but I think it does, so you'll need the same
passwords files)

You can just, as you said, tar the whole /home...

tar -c /home >> /backup.tar

and then gzip /backup.tar to make it smaller.

but note that when you open it on another machines, permissions WILL be
screwed, and the sites database will most probably NOT work with that, so
you're kinda screwed with the GUI that way... i really have no solution
for that one. for a vanilla linux(without a GUI) - the solution is great,
for cobalts - i wouldn't do it.

- shimi.