 | View Full Version : The best way to back up Mar-y-Sol 08-22-2002, 04:48 PM What do you think is the best way to back up a server ? Using other server with differents ips and name servers? How can I do it in a nice and easy way? I will apreciate all the ideas. Brewer 08-22-2002, 05:03 PM The easiest way would be to add a second hard drive to the server and back up to there. That way you can do everything remotely and there are no bandwidth charges. Mar-y-Sol 08-22-2002, 05:54 PM If I cant have a second HD, another idea will be? thanks for the answer bitserve 08-22-2002, 09:33 PM By "Using other server with differents ips and name servers", do you mean having two servers for redundancy? Backing up a server typically means archiving the data on the server. chuckt101 08-22-2002, 09:45 PM Originally posted by Mar-y-Sol If I cant have a second HD, another idea will be? thanks for the answer setup rsync with another server or home server if you have fast connection. or cron to tar/gzip all important files and download that nightly/weekly. lostpacket 08-23-2002, 01:35 AM I have rsync installed... What is the propper command to run to have it copy /home/sites/site1/web on server 1 to server 2 running rsync also. Thanks for the help ahead of time. leat 08-23-2002, 02:16 AM Originally posted by lostpacket I have rsync installed... What is the propper command to run to have it copy /home/sites/site1/web on server 1 to server 2 running rsync also. Thanks for the help ahead of time. Have a look at http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/ You will find complete scripts for backup using rsync there as well as a good article about how to use rsync to backup Unix systems efficiently. hostchamp 08-23-2002, 02:42 AM I have two HDD installed on RH7.1 Linux box, i back all folders using the command cp -afu for differential backup. I run a shell sciprt to back up each folder. Does anyone have a better solution for me or the above is good enough? Pls let me know. Mar-y-Sol 08-23-2002, 07:27 AM I have a server installed at home with a dsl , overningt backup, its a good idea. thanks guys hbouma 08-23-2002, 05:53 PM Originally posted by Brewer The easiest way would be to add a second hard drive to the server and back up to there. That way you can do everything remotely and there are no bandwidth charges. Which is great until the machine that has both your data and your backup on it dies. Or something causes both drives to die at the same time. Or a hacker comes along and wipes both drives... Can't say having both the data and the backup "under one house" is a complete backup solution... Hal bitserve 08-24-2002, 01:55 PM Originally posted by hbouma Which is great until the machine that has both your data and your backup on it dies. Or something causes both drives to die at the same time. Or a hacker comes along and wipes both drives... Can't say having both the data and the backup "under one house" is a complete backup solution... Once you get two machines, you can have each machine backup to the other's second hard disk drive. |