[cobalt-users] Knowledgebase / Disaster Question

["Tim Lawson" <timl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I have a story / small novel to tell you...

I went to the Sun Cobalt Knowledgebase at
http://cobalt-knowledge.sun.com/cgi-bin/kbase.cfg/php/enduser/std_alp.php

(1) I found an article explaining the use of TAR to backup the '/home/sites'
directory.
(2) Read it and saw the "How well did this answer your question?" at the
bottom. I clicked 75%.
(3) A comments dialogue asked for my suggestion on how to make the article
better, I took time to fill it out so that the next user may see the
complete answer to what I was looking for. For the common good.

NOW THE ARTICLE HAS BEEN REMOVED ALL TOGETHER... WHY? DO THEY REMOVE THE
ARTICLE TO UPDATE IT?

I have posted the article here for the benefit of anybody else who may have
wanted to do this with their Sun Cobalt appliance, as I can't find it on the
Knowledgebase anymore...

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How do I backup everything in the /home/sites directory?
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SUN COBALT PRODUCTS ARE SERVER APPLIANCES AND ARE DESIGNED TO PROVIDE
SERVICES SUCH AS WEB HOSTING, E-MAIL, AND FILE SHARING, WHICH ARE ACCESSED
VIA A WEB-BASED USER INTERFACE. DIRECT ACCESS OR MODIFICATION OF THE
UNDERLYING SOFTWARE OR HARDWARE OF THE SUN COBALT PRODUCT IS NOT SUPPORTED
BY SUN COBALT AND WILL VOID YOUR PRODUCT WARRANTY. THE INFORMATION BELOW IS
PROVIDED "AS IS," FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. SUN COBALT WILL NOT BE
LIABLE FOR ANY LOSSES OR DAMAGES SUFFERED AS A RESULT OF YOUR USE OF THIS
INFORMATION. PHONE AND WEB-BASED SUPPORT WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE FOR SYSTEM
ISSUES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF THIS INFORMATION.
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Log into your server via telnet, and perform the following commands:

[admin admin]$ su -							[become root]
[root /root]# tar -czf /home/sites.tar.gz /home/sites		[create backup]
[root /root]# exit							[exit root account]
[admin admin]$ exit							[exit server]

This will create a compressed tar archive called sites.tar.gz in the /home
partition of the entire /home/sites directory, which you can then FTP to
another machine.

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I will now proceed to ask you all the question I submitted to Sun Cobalt
without reply... I can't remember the exact words and it was long (I'm a
real chatterbox) so here is what I basically asked...

I need to know what directories on my RAQ4r I need to TAR and FTP to another
location to cover the...

(1) Website files
(2) Users emails
(3) The current Cobalt GUI (with the information on the sites and users
intact)

I don't care if I need to make more than 1 TAR file, I just need to know
what directories to backup.

After the disaster occurs such as a fire, I want to restore by doing the
following...

(1) Get my new RAQ4r from a dealer
(2) Run the OS Restore CD if required
(3) Install all Cobalt (PKG) patches I use
(4) Un TAR all my backed up sites, users AND cobalt GUI settings
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Please tell me anything you can share on this matter, maybe we make a Cobalt
specific backup software (PKG) from the information I seek.

Sorry for the HUGE post...

Kind regards,

Tim