Now that Rackshack has upped the transfer to 300GB per month, I was wondering if anyone would be interested in a Bakcup Exchange Program??

Maybe a Gig of Disk Space backed up every other day or every third day?

Thanks
-Abbas

Using what? The Cobalt Backup/Restore program? HAHAHAHAHA :emlaugh: - Don't waste your time, it hardly works.

Really??

Hmm....Any other solution?


-Abbas

Hi can make a simple script to do FTP backups with ncftput

heres mine

just run it form cron it does not use any disk space at your end as it tars the file as it ftps



#!/bin/bash

HOST=ftphosthere
USER=usernamehere
PASS=pass here

OH=bkp-home-daily-$(date +%a).tgz
OE=bkp-etc-daily-$(date +%a).tgz
OV=bkp-var-daily-$(date +%a).tgz
OA=bkp-admin-daily-$(date +%a).tgz
OL=bkp-local-daily-$(date +%a).tgz


#tar cfp - /home | gzip | /usr/bin/ncftpput -S .tmp -c $HOST -u $USER -p $PASS $OH
tar cfp - /etc | gzip | /usr/bin/ncftpput -S .tmp -c $HOST -u $USER -p $PASS $OE
tar cfp - /var | gzip | /usr/bin/ncftpput -S .tmp -c $HOST -u $USER -p $PASS $OV
tar cfp - /usr/admserv | gzip | /usr/bin/ncftpput -S .tmp -c $HOST -u $USER -p $PASS $OA
tar cfp - /usr/local | gzip | /usr/bin/ncftpput -S .tmp -c $HOST -u $USER -p $PASS $OL

We do backups this way all the time for out forum Databases, Its just set up as a Cron job and activates every 3 hours copying the new database across.

We also run a second Cron at 12 hour intervals onto a seperate server.

This way if any data is corrupted we have 3 - 12 hours to correct the problem and restore from a backup.

And yes RAQ backup sucks big time.

KMD

Abbas,

Originally posted by AbbasJaffarali
[B... I was wondering if anyone would be interested in a Bakcup Exchange Program??

Maybe a Gig of Disk Space backed up every other day or every third day?
[/B]


I would be interested - any ideas on how this would be managed to prevent abuse of bandwidth, etc? I would hate to end up paying for more bandwidth, or let clients suffer because of some backup process.

Once a week would be more than enough for now ...

Rgrds,

Johan