On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 08:58:05AM -0700, Adam Chlipala wrote:
> Graham Freeman wrote:
> > What are the state of backups?
>
> I think it probably makes sense now to create an archive of all
> non-restorable disk contents (e.g., /home, parts of /etc and /var) and
> have an admin download it. Can anyone recommend the best command to use
> to do this? (The recommendation should include the exact paths that
> should be backed up.)
>
> Luckily, /home *almost* has enough space to hold all current disk
> contents uncompressed, and it will definitely fit with compression.
I don't think we need to make a local copy of all data.
There's a convenient way to run tar/gzip over ssh.
I have the hosts where I can perform the complete download.
(How will it affect our InterServer bandwidth quota?)
The command I'm talking about is something like
tar zcf- --exclude epath1 --exclude epath2 /path1 /path2 /path3 |
ssh remote_host ( cd /dump; tar zxf- )
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