On 3/16/06, WA Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Would you be so kind to explain to me,a newbie, how to do this properly? I > have a Redhat9-Apache2.0 server and one laptop and another > desktop(winders)?A way to do it without having to shutdown the server and do > updates on a regular basis? > > WA Brown
For backing up the server, take a look at Jeremy and Jason's slides from their trilug presentation back in May 2004 http://www.trilug.org/talks/2004-05-backup/ For backing up the other machines over the network I use backuppc http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ I don't know if backuppc is packaged in rpm form, although I suspect that it is. I'm running Ubuntu/Debian and installing it as a deb package was dead easy. Backuppc allows several options for how to backup. I'm using rsync to backup my laptop, and samba for my wife's windows box. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rick DeNatale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list" <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 10:11 AM > Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Raid gurus? > > > On 3/15/06, John Broome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > nightly backups? > > > > 'cause RAID isn't for BACKUPS. > > Amen bro! > > For the edification and/or amusement of the followers of this thread, > here's my personal odyssey on backups/raid as a damp behind the ears > sysadmin for the household network. > > I've got several machines here. My first step was to set up a > disk-disk backup system for my main desktop workstation/server > following the presentation on backups which Jeremy P. and Jason T. did > a couple of years ago at a trilug meeting. This does frequent > historical rsync backups of the important data on the server to a > separate drive. This has already saved me from mishap and stupidity > on several occasions. > > The next step was to backup my wife's Windows XP Home machine, and my > Linux laptop. For this I use Backuppc which takes nightly backups > from these machines (or when the laptop is on the network if it wasn't > there at night). These backups are stored on the server, and in turn > get backed up by the rsync based system I just described. > > The latest step occurred after the boot drive on the server failed. > This particular machine came with two 9GB SCSI drives and I later > added 2 180GB IDE drives one for the bulk of the data and the other > for the backup drive. After the failure I realized that I hadn't been > using the two SCSI drives very intelligently. When I'd originally > built the system using Redhat 9, it had used one of the drives for / > and /boot, and only put a swap partition on the other. When I > transitioned to Ubuntu, I had it use the same partitioning scheme. > After replacing the bad drive and reinstalling Ubuntu, it only used > one of the disks and put / and swap in an LV. I then, with the help > of the trilug list in general and Brian M. in particular, converted > the two SCSI drives to a raid-1 array. > > The backups give me protection against both human and machine failures. > > The raid array gives me reliability, and availability in the face of > another drive failure by letting the system degrade rather than fail > and letting me quickly bring the system back to normal operation after > replacing a failed drive. > > --- > Rick DeNatale > > Visit the Project Mercury Wiki Site > http://www.mercuryspacecraft.com/ > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > -- Rick DeNatale Visit the Project Mercury Wiki Site http://www.mercuryspacecraft.com/ -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
