Saw this thread, and I know it's a few months old, but I just thought I'd post my thought on it...
> Disaster recovery is along the same lines but does require that you have a > backup of your skel and the virtual-server specific files from every vs. Actually, I have a script that you can use to specify directories to backup, etc. It does a full backup on the 1st of every month plus every Sunday, and incremental Mon-Sat (overwriting the previous week's backup). It runs from a cron job at 1:01am each day. So let's say at some point during, say, Thursday, you suffer a disaster. All you would need to do is first restore the last full backup (i.e., Sunday), and then the *last* incremental backup (in this case, the backup that was made at 1:01am Thursday morning). On a regualr server, I normally backup /etc, /home, /var/log, /var/spool/mail, and /var/spool/cron (if it exists). That way, all I have to do to recover is install my OS, the apps I need, and then do then restore config files, logs, mail, etc. from the backups. It can be done within a couple of hours (assuming you're starting from scratch, and don;t have a ready-to-go server standing by). I don't see any reason why this couldn't be applied to a FreeVSD server. Backing up the directories I named above would back up all the virtual servers, and also the skel. To recover from a disaster, you just go through the regular install process, including the install of the Skel, and running of the vsd_install script. After that, I would just restore from the backups, and everything should be more or lest back to normal. Same process could be applied to moving everything over to another machine, with maybe a little tweaking required. Of course if I were moving all the VS's to anew machine (assuming the "old" one is still operating), I would get the "new" one setup first, and make sure it's working fine with the VS's, *then* shut the old one down :-) Just my thoughts. Feel free to add yours! Alan Murrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------- The freeVSD Support List -------------------------- Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=subscribe%20freevsd-support Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=unsubscribe%20freevsd-support Archives: http://freevsd.org/support/mail-archives/freevsd-support -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
