Backup options

kkiedrowski · 12-12-2005, 02:27 PM

i was wondering i f anyone could recommend a cood bakcup solution that I can start remotely and will burn to CD as I have no tape in my server.
I am running slackware 10.2.
I have this server in my house but it has no monitor or keyboard hooked to it as i administer it remotely

Finlay · 12-12-2005, 04:14 PM

sounds like you can make a simple script that will tar or tar.gz a few directories, or whatever you need to backup then have a burn to cd command at the end.

Mega Man X · 12-12-2005, 04:22 PM

I wrote this a while ago (Post number 2). Perhaps you may find it useful:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...25#post1862525

Regards!

uopjohnson · 12-12-2005, 05:49 PM

Forget the CD... use GMAIL instead.
http://richard.jones.name/google-hac...ilesystem.html

You can put shell scripts into /etc/cron.daily and they will run everyday.
I do something like this:

rsync /home /backup/
tar cjf /backup/home.tar.bz /backup/home
cp /backup/home.tar.bz /gmail/`date +%d-%m-%Y.tar.bz`

modify to suit your needs.
Rsync is a very cool tool that saves a ton of time moving files around, I actually rsync everything over to a file server and do the taring there.

Swift&Smart · 12-13-2005, 10:38 AM

Why don't check out partimage?

It is a "ghost-like" image backup software.What's more,you can back up to a remote computer and then do what you want(e.g.burn to disc).

Feel free to check it out.

Finlay · 12-13-2005, 10:44 AM

Making a disk image is a good idea. it can be used to do a complete restore.
But i would still do the tar method of your config files and changing data.

This way if you do get a disk failure, you can restore from disk image, then restore the latest tar and you should be back up and running.