Re: [cobalt-users] Raq550 Backups

["David Booth" <dbooth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Welcome to the club. I'm trying to work out a nice backup routine that will
give me peace of mind.
I don't have access to Legato or Arkeia servers but I do have a second drive
/vol/hdc/ in my 550.

So far I have got:

cd /vol/hdc/backup (make this dir owned by admin so you can scp)

/usr/local/sbin/cobalt_prebackup

That's what they say is done by the Legato method (sounds like childbirth!)
to capture the gui database. You could delve into that cobalt_prebackup
script to see what actually happens - looks like a postges dump.

mv /var/cobalt/backups/cce.tar .

Don't leave in /var/cobalt/backups or it will overwrite on boot!

tar zcfv hostname.tar.gz /var /etc /usr /root /.nsr /nsr /opt /home

For me at the moment that's only about 1 Gb. Still contains way more than is
essential for recovery but it is what is recommended.

chown admin. *

Now hostname.tar.gz  and cce.tar can be got by ftp or scp or rsync from
elsewehere.

I'm looking at doing that once (when my config is fairly complete) and then
reducing the hostname.tar.gz to do just the volatile stuff.

I'd prefer to use CMU but I never got a definite answer to:

"re CMU on 550, is
ftp://ftp-eng.cobalt.com/pub/users/jeffb/cmu/
01/17/2003 09:35 103,363 RaQ550-All-CMU-2.43.pkg
a supported product?"

so until Sun/Cobalt will give it a stamp of approval - maybe include it on
BlueLinq - I don't want to take any chances.

David Booth
Goulburn Internet
http://www.goulburn.net.au
0500522400

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeremy Glick" <mail.list@xxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 9:47 AM
Subject: [cobalt-users] Raq550 Backups


>
> On the Raq4 there was an option to schedule FTP backups.  Is there
anything
> like this for the Raq550?  All I see are options for 3rd party solutions.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeremy