On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 12:27 PM, John Rouillard <
rouilj-backu...@renesys.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:48:45PM -0700, rbastedo wrote:
> > I've recently been given the task of setting up BackupPC to back up
> > some of our servers running RHEL and PgSQL.
> > Management wants me to back up data to an NFS where it can then be
> > saved to tape via DPM for offsite storage.
> >
> > I have set up a pair of test machines, the BackupPC server is on a
> > RHEL 6 box and the target I am backing up is a little CentOS 5 desktop.
> > BackupPC is successfully backing up the CentOS machine to it's
> >/data/BackupPC TopDir. I've used rsync with ssh2 to perform 2 small
> backups.
>
> How are you backing up postgres?
>
> Are you dumping the database (pg_dumpall) and then backing up the
> resulting file with backupc?
> Are you shutting down postgres before doing the backups of the
> data area using backuppc and then restarting after the backup
> is complete?
> Do you have backuppc customized to perform a PITR backup?
>
> If you aren't doing one of these three things your postgres backups
> are pretty much worthless and won't be able to be restored.
>
> Given this is your first foray into backups I thought these may be
> important things to check.
>
>
The vendor who maintains that system does the primary backup to disk so the
PostgreSQL backups are done for us and stored on a 'backup' box.
Now the task is to get that backup stored to our tape system that us
controlled by DPM.
Today I was given the machine to install RHEL 6.1 on so I can configure our
"production" BackupPC installation.
I am just now at the installation phase, and have the screens up asking what
kind of installation I want to do (Basic Server, Database Server, Web
Server...).
Is there a general walk through for setting this up so that maybe it will
work a bit better than my first install?
The first one was on a test machine and I didn't know I wanted Apache or
PERL or rsync or any of that stuff.
So I know that I know more now than I did then but I also am aware that I'm
not really sure of everything.
I'm just hoping this goes better than the test install.
Once again - the backup is done to disk already, the vendor is liable for
the quality of that backup so all I'm tasked at doing is getting a copy of
that onto tape for offsite storage.
I can't move it directly to our tape system because DPM is in control of it
and apparently doesn't speak Linux.
Rick Bastedo
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