[cobalt-users] Backup again!

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-----Original Message-----
From: Jarle Søiland [mailto:cobaltmail@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 4:03 PM
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Backup again!


>The backup modules in the GUI on the raq servers are not an good solution
<snip>
>My question is, will not the following command take a complete backup 
that
>can be restored if the server crash?
>
>tar -czvf /home/sites/home/users/admin/complete.tar.gz ./

I don't think you'd get enough for a complete restore.

<snip>
>I have now done 3 restores with Raq servers ( 2 Raq2 and one Raq4 and it 
is
>hell ) I hope I newer have to do this again and need an solution for a 
good
>backup.
>
>Jarle Soiland
>Mega 2000 AS
>www.mega2000.no

After researching a lot of the archives, I've globbed together something I 
hope will do the trick.  (Have not yet tested a restore.)  It is a small 
shell script with tips from a number of list authors, most notably Steve 
Werby.  The script uses ftpbackup which necessitates the use of another 
ftp server, in my case I am using www.ibackup.com until I acquire another 
server.  ftpbackup is a fairly old program and can be hard to locate 
because of many dead links.  I could never get the rpm version to work but 
the tarball compiles easily.

#!/bin/sh
ls -aR1 --full-time / > /home/ref/file_list.txt
tar cfp - /home/ref/file_list.txt | gzip | /usr/local/bin/ftpbackup -h 
www.ibackup.com -u username -p password -b backup.file_list-`date 
+%Y-%m-%d`.tar.gz
tar cfp - /etc/*.conf | gzip | /usr/local/bin/ftpbackup -h www.ibackup.com 
-u username -p password -b backup.etc-dir_conf-`date +%Y-%m-%d`.tar.gz
tar cfp - /usr/local/urchin3da/ | gzip | /usr/local/bin/ftpbackup -h 
www.ibackup.com -u username -p password -b 
backup.usr_local_urchin3da_conf-`date +%Y-%m-%d`.tar.gz
tar cfp - /etc/mail/ | gzip | /usr/local/bin/ftpbackup -h www.ibackup.com 
-u username -p password -b backup.etc_mail-`date +%Y-%m-%d`.tar.gz
tar cfp - /etc/httpd/conf/ | gzip | /usr/local/bin/ftpbackup -h 
www.ibackup.com -u username -p password -b backup.etc_httpd_conf-`date 
+%Y-%m-%d`.tar.gz
tar cfp - /etc/named/ | gzip | /usr/local/bin/ftpbackup -h www.ibackup.com 
-u username -p password -b backup.etc_named-`date +%Y-%m-%d`.tar.gz
tar cfp - /root/ | gzip | /usr/local/bin/ftpbackup -h www.ibackup.com -u 
username -p password -b backup.root-`date +%Y-%m-%d`.tar.gz
tar cfp - /home/spool/ | gzip | /usr/local/bin/ftpbackup -h 
www.ibackup.com -u username -p password -b backup.home_spool-`date 
+%Y-%m-%d`.tar.gz
tar cfp - /etc/ssh/ | gzip | /usr/local/bin/ftpbackup -h www.ibackup.com 
-u username -p password -b backup.etc_ssh-`date +%Y-%m-%d`.tar.gz
tar cfp - /home/sites/home/ | gzip | /usr/local/bin/ftpbackup -h 
www.ibackup.com -u username -p password -b backup.sites_home`date 
+%Y-%m-%d`.tar.gz
tar cfp - /home/sites/site[1-9]/ | gzip | /usr/local/bin/ftpbackup -h 
www.ibackup.com -u username -p password -b backup.sites_1-9-`date 
+%Y-%m-%d`.tar.gz
tar cfp - /home/sites/site1?/ | gzip | /usr/local/bin/ftpbackup -h 
www.ibackup.com -u username -p password -b backup.sites_10-19-`date 
+%Y-%m-%d`.tar.gz

Sorry for the length of this; obviously each 'tar' goes on a single line. 
Any comments from those more knowledgeable regarding my file/dir 
selections would be appreciated.

Kim Bjork
www.infoaxis.com