[SATLUG] backup recommendations

[Jeremy Mann]

That is just a simple backup solution. Good for general backups. You
can have any number of backup varieties, using the -e ssh option to
backup to a remote server, adding incrementals, just to name a few.

On 3/2/07, james <jtiner at satx.rr.com> wrote:
> 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?
> > > System--- Fedora 5
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