Re: [cobalt-users] Backup Solution

["Rick Ewart" <cobalt@xxxxxxxxx>]

George wrote:
> We have multiple servers running at www.888.net but they are all live
> servers with customer sites on them and we dont have a spare to try it to.
>
> So am I correct in understanding you that you use the manual backup steps
> you mentioned but have not had the chance to use them tar files as part of
a
> complete restore? I was hoping to find a proven reliable solution that I
> could use - but I will see if 888.net will loan us a server for testing so
> we can be sure.

George -

As you have multiple servers local to each other, you might want to take a
look at the raqbackup.sh script. I installed it on my machine and it works
really nicely. It uses the Cobalt Migration Utility to export the sites and
then FTPs the backups to another machine. It took only a few minutes to get
up and running but it works real nicely. It will probably save you a lot of
aggravation/questions as it covers disaster recovery steps as well and is a
proven solution that many others use. The only downside is that it does a
full transfer of the backup, which can be large. The rsynch solution that
was also suggested would do incremental/differential backups where only
changes are transferred, but it wasn't as clean of a setup as the raqbackup
script, plus bandwidth wasn't an issue in my case.

www.neuhaus-internet.de/cobalt/raqbackup

HTH.
Rick