Hello All,
We are having Linux server with daily configured backup on it.Along with daily backup we have also weekly and monthly backup configured on it.
We have /backup as second harddisk where we take backup of /home and imp configuration files.But now that /backup drive is full (100%).And I need to make some space for future backup on the server.
In such situation we generally delete some files etc to create some space on /backup but I want some good solution in which one needn't delete the files etc.
My question is that what are other posible ways in which i can take backup?Should I go for tape drive?or bigger hard-disk will do?or I need RAID configuration etc on the server?Or SCSI can be used?
Can anybody please help me!!I need some good suggestions as i face this proble weekly!!
Thank you

Larger hard drive.

Compession.

Remote Backup to larger disk array.


Chris

Hello Chris,
We use WHM for backup configuration,so how do I compress it?
And how so i take remote backup?
Can you suggest me solution?
I should try for bigger HD than tape!!
I will check it..
Thanks

how did you go about deleting the /backup drive and get some more space? I am having the same problem, and I need to remove some of the old backups. how would I do that?

come on you guys, how do you remove old backups from the /backup drive?

this is an excellent online backup software http://www.ahsay.com/en/home/offsite-backup.htm

you want to delete everything in the /backup drive?


cd /backup

rm -rf *


poof, everything will be gone.


if you just want to remove specific tar files or something, use

rm $filename


Chris

delete only the monthy backup.

access:
cd /backup/cpbackup/monthly
rm -fdr ./monthly

It free a lot of space

you can delete the weekly and keep only the daily backups