What is most common way to back up server's file?

1. By tape, rotate daily?

or

2. Second HDD?

If I choose backup by tape, does it use any bandwidth while backing up those files?


One other thing. I am currently running a server with 20GB HDD & WHM. If I do run out of space, can I just simply add a second HDD to keep everything going?

I just run a script that tars up the most important files on my server on one day, then on the next, tar up the home dir. I then just ftp to my computer and burn to a cdr :)

I use a remote backup server and I find it very effective

:)

Originally posted by teck
I just run a script that tars up the most important files on my server on one day, then on the next, tar up the home dir. I then just ftp to my computer and burn to a cdr :)

Would you be willing to share this script or is it commercial?

Originally posted by Synergy
I use a remote backup server and I find it very effective

:)

How is this acheived? where is the back up server? could you use one on a cable connection

I just use flexbackup. It's free, easy to setup, and you can run it as a cron. It has a few nice little features as well. You can find it anywhere just do a search on your favorite search engine for it.:)

Originally posted by TheRazor
I just use flexbackup. It's free, easy to setup, and you can run it as a cron. It has a few nice little features as well. You can find it anywhere just do a search on your favorite search engine for it.:)


I have asked this question before but never got a an answer, what dir/files (not home dir) should you backup so as rto ecover from a system failure, ie the need to re-install.

Originally posted by carpman


How is this acheived? where is the back up server? could you use one on a cable connection

One potential downside to running a backup server on a cable modem is your potentially limited upstearm bandwidth. My cable modem is limited to about 256kbs upstream. I could do backups to a box at home just fine, but it would take a while to do a restore over the network if I was backing up a lot of data that way (all hypothetical, I don't run any backup servers at home). You would also be using your bandwidth for all of your backups.

-Joe

Isn't there a way to sync a second hard drive? If you have a second drive couldnt you just mirror the first drive and this would create a backup of your main hard drive.

Anyone know how to sync the second hard drive to the first?

Thanks

James
:angry:

Originally posted by phpjames
Isn't there a way to sync a second hard drive? If you have a second drive couldnt you just mirror the first drive and this would create a backup of your main hard drive.

Anyone know how to sync the second hard drive to the first?

Thanks

James
:angry:

I don't know how - but I know the answer is RAID mirroring. With Linux you can use either a RAID card to handle this or soft RAID.

BTW - why the grumpy face? :)

What os, and cp are you using... I use whm, and on the cpanel site there is a list of directories and files that should be backed up to make recovery quite easy. I attempting writing a php script that would allow me to easily add/delete/modify a list of files and directories to be backed up by flexbackup. And I would like to make it set the time for the cron, but that is a ways off, I am quite busy now. anyway check out support.cpanel.net and search for backup if you are using whm

Where? i have search and cannot find this info.

Thanks


Originally posted by TheRazor
What os, and cp are you using... I use whm, and on the cpanel site there is a list of directories and files that should be backed up to make recovery quite easy. I attempting writing a php script that would allow me to easily add/delete/modify a list of files and directories to be backed up by flexbackup. And I would like to make it set the time for the cron, but that is a ways off, I am quite busy now. anyway check out support.cpanel.net and search for backup if you are using whm

The topic really isn't really on backing up, it is on moving people from one server to another, check about half way down I think the post is from CRego3D I think:

http://support.cpanel.net/new/viewthread.php?tid=2