[SATLUG] backup recommendations

[james]

I agree. That's why I said we need more requirements before we can tell
him what the most appropriate switches are. 

I'm not questioning your answer because it was appropriate and correct.
I am, however, questioning the question because I just want to make sure
that he was asking what he thought he was asking.

There's nothing worse than finding you have a need for a backup of some
critical data but finding that the backup was also destroyed. That is,
except for finding out that you were paying for something you didn't
need and that the additional cost kept you from doing something more
important like expanding your business. 

On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 15:26 -0600, Jeremy Mann wrote:
> 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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