Backup & Restore plan using tar
I have been working in the Unix for 15 years but I am new to Linux. I am designing a backup and restore plan using tar. I have a few concerns.
Assuming the mysql databases are idle, will tar backup all that is necessary to get back up and running? All my tests say yes, but I wanted to confirm this. If I backup the whole system (cd / ; tar cvf /dev/st0 .) when I try to restore this backup how do I deal with processes that are running whose binaries will not be overwritten? In Unix I generally avoid this backup method and just backup that data and necessary configuration files. It is not my first choice with Linux either. If I just want to back up the data files and not the OS, how to I determine where the files that the servers and their respective GUI interface use are located? I am running Red Hat 9.0. I find little to no references to these files in the documentation. I hope I am just looking at the wrong documents. I ask this because I was only backing up /var/named on a name server and when I tested the restore plan I found that named did not work when this directory was restored. If I use dd as below: # Copy all but the label from disk to tape. (dd bs=4k skip=1 count=0 && dd bs=512k) <$disk >$tape # Copy from tape back to disk, but leave the disk label alone. (dd bs=4k seek=1 count=0 && dd bs=512k) <$tape >$disk What is the implication of system activity while the backup is running? I envision this producing a file system with serious issues. I see many suggestions to use dd for disk to disk backup, but I fear the same risk. Thanks, Mark Casazza |
Re: Backup & Restore plan using tar
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As far as configuration/data files and such for each specific application, you're probably going to have to look at documentation for each individual application. But as a guess, most configuration files or stored in either /etc or a .<app name> file/directory in your home directory. To back up your named configuration you'll have to archive /etc/named.conf and probably you're entire /var/named/pz directory. |
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