RE: [cobalt-users] Backup Solution

["George Gates" <nywebdoctor9@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Simon,

Thanks for the input.

Does this cover all areas of the Raq4? If we simply do a remote OS reload 
and then untar these backups, does that put everything back the way it was?

I assume you put these commands into a shell script and run then thru cron?

How about trying to auto-FTPing them as part of the backup script to another 
server for safe keeping?

Anyway, thanks for the help, we will give it a try.

Later,

George Gates
NY Web Doc


> From: "Simon Pierce" <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] Backup Solution
> Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 14:25:34 +0100
>
> I'm trying to come up with a reliable manual backup system using TAR. I've
> posted the instructions here a few times recently and asked for advice and
> opinions but nobody on the list seems to be answering my emails. Maybe
> there's a problem with the list? Maybe nobody knows enough about backup to
> help? Maybe it's because I'm British and England are doing very well in the
> World Cup at the moment! :-)
>
> Here's my most recent email:
>
> ---------------------------------
> Hi,
>
> Here's the step by step backup procedure for a RaQ 3 I posted last week. I
> still don't know if it works as I have no means of trying it!
>
> I have a question: what should I add to the following to ensure that I
> backup the mySQL server, and Nameserver configuration? Or should I just do 
> a
> Admin Panel backup of all server configuration before doing these steps?
>
> I'm doing this instead of using raqbackup.sh because I don't have a second
> server to backup to.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Simon
>
>
> Backup Procedure
>
> 1)Telnet in and su to root. Type the following commands.
>
> cd /
> tar -cpvz -f /home/backup/etc.tar.gz etc
>
> cd /
> tar -cpvz -f /home/backup/var.tar.gz var
>
> cd /
> tar -cpvz -f /home/backup/root.tar.gz root
>
> cd /usr/
> tar -cpvz -f /home/backup/usr-admserv.tar.gz admserv
>
> cd /usr/
> tar -cpvz -f /home/backup/usr-local.tar.gz local
>
> cd  /home/log/
> tar -cpvz -f /home/backup/home-log-httpd.tar.gz httpd
>
> cd  /home/
> tar -cpvz -f /home/backup/home-spool.tar.gz spool
>
> cd /home/
> tar -cpvz -f /home/backup/sites.tar.gz sites
>
> 2)Using FTP, browse to the /home/backup/ folder, and copy the TARs to a 
> safe
> place.
> 3)Disaster hits!
> 4)On a new RaQ, create the folder /home/backup/ and copy the TARs accross.
> 5)Telnet in and su to root. Type in the following commands:
>
> cd /
> tar -xfpvz /home/backup/etc.tar.gz
>
> cd /
> tar -xfpvz /home/backup/var.tar.gz
>
> cd /
> tar -xfpvz /home/backup/root.tar.gz
>
> cd /usr/
> tar -xfpvz /home/backup/usr-admserv.tar.gz
>
> cd /usr/
> tar -xfpvz /home/backup/usr-local.tar.gz
>
> cd  /home/log/
> tar -xfpvz /home/backup/home-log-httpd.tar.gz
>
> cd  /home/
> tar -xfpvz /home/backup/home-spool.tar.gz
>
> cd /home/
> tar -xfpvz /home/backup/sites.tar.gz
>
> 6) Restart RaQ and hope for the best!
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Simon
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of George Gates
> Sent: 18 June 2002 14:16
> To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Backup Solution
>
>
> Has anyone found a reliable backup / restore solution for the RaQ4? Our
> servers are colocated elsewhere and we need a free, fast, dependable backup
> and restore solution for the RaQ4. What steps do you take - what works and
> what does not - your restore success/failure experiences - any insight 
> would
> be appreciated.
>
> Later,
>
> George Gates
> NY Web Doc
>
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