OK, to make a long story short, I inherited a RedHat system here at work, and it just so happens that I am not much of a Linux administrator. I know a few commands, and I can navigate the system, but that is about it.

The previous admin. had set the system up to backup to a Windows server. I am going to be moving my backups to a new server, and I am trying to figure out how he is currently backing everything up and how to change the backup to the new server.

I am not even sure exactly what version of RedHat is on the server.

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

If the backup is performed regularly (e.g. daily) maybe there is an entry in the crontab. As root you can type 'crontab -l' to retrieve the crontab entries.

To check the RedHat version look for a file called redhat-release (or similar) in the /etc directory.

So, I found out that the machine is running Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4. When I look at crontab I find something scheduled that looks like this:

30 1 * * * /backup/gobackup.sh > /dev/null

I am assuming that this is probably the scheduled backup. When I go into the backup directory I find the following three files:

backup.log backup.php gobackup.sh

Again, I am not very experienced with Linux. Some guidance would be much appreciated.

Yes. This tells that the backup is performed every night at 1:30 AM.

You should edit the gobackup.sh and redirect the backup to the new server. You can post the content of gobackup.sh, if you want, but mask/hide every public IP address (if any)!

extensions really do not mean anything in linux but used for connivance. .sh is typically a shell(most likely bash) script. php is hypertext preprocessor typically used for dynamic webpages but does have a command line interpreter. I assume the backup.log file is created from either of the scripts.

Go view the gobackup.sh and backup.php files. These are the programs that create the actual backups.

There's a certain command that I can run to figure out which redhat version im running but I cant remember which one. Anyone know?