On 05/30/2017 12:07 PM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote:
On 5/28/2017 5:29 PM, Dave Jones wrote:
I hope this server is being backed up after all of this time spent on getting everything working again.

Your question asking about backups was important because no, I don't know what backups exist of the machines. Based on previous experience, there are none. So I have run Crashplan for just this reason.

Additionally, I got a notice CP wasn't running since the 26th so I just started the service again. i.e. service crashplan start

I've added the credentials for the crashplan service to sysadmins/accounts.

*IMPORTANT: we are backing up /root, /home and /usr/local. Is there anything else we should be backing up > *

We should add /etc and /var/www and exclude /usr/local/spamassassin/backups since it's so large.


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Finally, could you look this over and add it to InfraNotes2017?



Certainly.

Crashplan

Crashplan is sometimes used to backup SpamAssassin project machines as an additional safety valve.

Credentials: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/spamassassin/sysadmins/accounts/crash.pccc.com.enc.README

We still need to create a recovery gpg key and re-sign everything with that key before we get too far down that road.


To configure the client, choose what gets backed up, etc., you have to interface with the client. When working with remote machines, you can install the client locally and use SSH to port forward to remotely administer things. They call this managing a headless box.

See https://support.code42.com/CrashPlan/4/Configuring/Use_CrashPlan_on_a_headless_computer_version_4.2_and_earlier for more details.


Regards,

KAM



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