Steve, I've got a set of a few scripts that handle backing up the database / config files. They run nightly on our system. More complete backups could be had three ways, descending in order of how 'complete' they are:
dd rsync something a little more custom dd is a bit copying utility that copies an exact image of a location to another. The 'destination' can be either the partition of a drive (creating the illusion of an exact copy) or a file (creating an 'image' of sorts - so you could have 20081101-0200.img containing the system as of that timestamp. rsync is a file synchronization utility that copies changed files between two locations. It would keep the changes from drive 1 synced to drive 2. Both of the above would best be run pointing at another drive in the local machine - which doesn't protect from certain classes of failures custom: copy a dump of the database, and a folder-replicated copy of all the stuff the Gateway install does into a folder, tarball it up. I'd have to try this one before knowing how practical it would be to restore. This could be done without adding a drive, and simply "sent" somewhere automatically. I'd be really tempted to make this "somewhere" Amazon's S3 service - you'll pay for your transfer bandwidth / storage usage, but very reasonable rates considering the data is being replicated all over the world, and far more redundant than normal people could afford. One of my coworkers wrote a script we use for keeping mirrors of our media servers (3TB data and growing every day) called clonus3 (http://code.google.com/p/clonus3/). It's a good choice to me primarily because I know the guy and more specifically because it's highly configurable in terms of what it pushes / ignores (making it easier to "extract" just the gateway bits from the OS) A restore would just be the same thing in reverse. It's almost like rsync but specifically for talking to Amazon instead of another folder/hard drive locally. Adam Fast KC0YLK On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Steve Glen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now that we have our DStar gateway working at WU5PIG it is time to create a > full back up of the computer running our internet link. Can someone point > me to a good backup solution that will run well with CentOS. I would prefer > something that will make a realtime back up without having to take the > system off line. In an emergency I don't mind reloading the OS but I would > prefer to then go to the back up solution and restore everything. If you > prefer to respond off list I am redbirdsfan82 at yahoo dot com. > > 73 de W5EN Steve > Via WU5PIG G in Arkansas > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > >
