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05-28-2004, 04:07 AM #1Junior Guru Wannabe
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Taking a complete backup of a Raq4
I have had a Raq4 with uk2.net for about 2 years now, no real complaints, if I recall correctly their network did go down once, but nothing major, anyway, I am retiring the server soon and would like to take a complete copy of everything.
Anyone have any recommendations of how I'd go about doing this? I have tried to sync the lot over sftp to a 120Gb over here in the offices, but it doesnt want to dance.
Suggestions/Recommendations/Pointer in the right direction would be muchly appreciated.
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05-28-2004, 04:42 AM #2Web Hosting Master
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tar each site up and wget them to your local machine
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05-28-2004, 04:46 AM #3Junior Guru Wannabe
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yeah that was the thing I was thinkig of trying, just put latest version of rsync on there, gonna have a fiddle with it, see what happens Failing that tar czf here I come
Edit: Oh and...
[root /root]# uptime
9:47am up 240 days, 10:35, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.21, 0.16
[root /root]#
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05-28-2004, 05:37 AM #4Web Hosting Master
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Guess you've not done no kernel updates then?
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05-28-2004, 05:48 AM #5Junior Guru Wannabe
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Yeah, old server, used for backup mail, and secondary DNS.
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05-28-2004, 10:36 AM #6I Squash Server Problems
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Use raqbackup.sh. It does not include the OS, but will get dns, mail, mysql, sites, etc.
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05-30-2004, 01:17 PM #7Junior Guru Wannabe
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Cheers for that.
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06-08-2004, 09:43 PM #8WHT Addict
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As a slight addition to this thread, anyone know of how to restore the files backed up by the backup script?
I have it running too, but luckily have never had the need to restore a failed Raq. Is it something like this?
1. Clean restore a Raq4
2. Patch up to latest patches
3. Install portsentry, pmfirewall and other security stuff
4. Configure the ssh, apache etc.
5. Copy all the directories from the backup directory to overwrite those on your newly installed Raq.
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06-09-2004, 11:29 PM #9WHT Addict
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there is a detailed "how to" restore below, I have had to use this a couple of times in the last couple of years and it works fine
http://www.neuhaus-internet.de/cobal...ackup/restore/CGI Supply
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06-10-2004, 10:52 PM #10Disabled
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Frea
Cool................