[SATLUG] backup recommendations

[james]

Good start, but maybe hector should give a little more information.
Having done much Disaster Recovery planning and Business continuity
planning, I must ask if he is asking for what he really needs. 

Hector, could you expand on what your requirements are?

Jeremy's solution will certainly do what you asked, but just doing it
that way would imply that you keep a spare drive of equal or greater
size than the space you take up on the current server and that the HDD
stay attached to the server. if you had a massive power surge, for
example, that backup would possibly be affected as well and thus do you
no good. 

Like I said, Jeremy's solution is correct for the question asked, but is
the question correct? 

On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 14:14 -0600, Jeremy Mann wrote:
> rsync -av --no-whole-file --delete --exclude="proc" --exclude="sys" /
> /mnt/sparehd/.
> 
> Run that once or twice a day
> 
> On 3/2/07, Hector Bojorquez <hector.bojorquez at gmail.com> wrote:
> > What exactly are the procedures for backing up an entire web server, in case
> > of total failure?
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