discuss: Thread: Linux Network Backup Mini-HOWTO Needed?

Hi Folks,

I was going through the Linux Howto documentation on system backup and 
recovery and noticed that the only Howto which relates to backup is for 
taped backups. 

I have a document in Linuxdoc format that I have been using for simple 
backup and recovery routines here in-house.  It deals with system to 
system backup and archiving of Mysql data and user files using cron, 
rdist and various compression and archival methods.

Does anyone else see a need to add this type of document to the 
collection?  If so

-- 
Salvador Peralta
Systems Administrator
Mark O. Hatfield Library
http://www.willamette.edu/~speralta

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On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Salvador Peralta wrote:

> Hi Folks,
> 
> I was going through the Linux Howto documentation on system backup and 
> recovery and noticed that the only Howto which relates to backup is for 
> taped backups. 
> 
> I have a document in Linuxdoc format that I have been using for simple 
> backup and recovery routines here in-house.  It deals with system to 
> system backup and archiving of Mysql data and user files using cron, 
> rdist and various compression and archival methods.

Can you send it in, so as we can have a look at it?  Or is it somewhere 
on-line?

Tille.

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My Penguin, my freedom.		http://tille.soti.org

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On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 12:36:48PM -0700, Salvador Peralta wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> I was going through the Linux Howto documentation on system backup and 
> recovery and noticed that the only Howto which relates to backup is for 
> taped backups. 
> 
> I have a document in Linuxdoc format that I have been using for simple 
> backup and recovery routines here in-house.  It deals with system to 
> system backup and archiving of Mysql data and user files using cron, 
> rdist and various compression and archival methods.

There are a number of other programs for backup to hard-disk: cpbk,
rsync, and unison.  Another way to backup is to store backups on ones
website using say sitecopy.  I use both sitecopy and cpbk.  Both run
automatically by anacron and backup the most important files to my
website and other stuff to another hard-drive.

> Does anyone else see a need to add this type of document to the 
> collection?  If so

I would like to see a comparison of the various ways to do hard-disk
backups, both on the same machine and remotely, including over the
Internet.  Just covering rdist is better than no HOWTO at all on the
topic but I think that at least some mention should be made of the other
alternatives.

There's still another point to cover and that's recovery after a hard-
drive crash.  If one has another bootable harddrive with the backups on
it, then one can just plug in the backup drive and recovery is complete
(except for getting another backup drive).

			David Lawyer

On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 12:36:48PM -0700, Salvador Peralta wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> I was going through the Linux Howto documentation on system backup and 
> recovery and noticed that the only Howto which relates to backup is for 
> taped backups. 

There are four documents listed at
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/admin.html#ADMBACKUP. I haven't
looked at the three I didn't write. A general backup HOWTO might be
useful. Particularly one that deals with levels of backups, general
strategies, etc.

You may find the Linux Complete Backup and Recovery HOWTO useful as
well, as it discusses backups over the network using tar, including
tar over
SSH.
(http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-HOWTO/index.html)

You may also find the resources in that HOWTO useful, particularly
W. Curtis Preston's excellent "Unix Backup &
Recovery". http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-HOWTO/resources.html

> 
> I have a document in Linuxdoc format that I have been using for simple 
> backup and recovery routines here in-house.  It deals with system to 
> system backup and archiving of Mysql data and user files using cron, 
> rdist and various compression and archival methods.
> 
> Does anyone else see a need to add this type of document to the 
> collection?  If so

It sounds useful. Is it on-line where I can read it?


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