Server Backup

[mphayesuk]

Ok I know that this topic has been covered and falko has posted links to guides... but they dont do what I want... What I plan to do is use Ghost 2003 to do a full system image to dvd's and then do a nightly backup of data to cd rw/r.

1) Is there a better solution to doing a full system image so that I can burn the image to dvd and then be able to restore from those images. The guides talk about backing up to remote servers which I dont have.

2) Can you back user folders ect... to CD RW's and then reuse them

3) Can someone list all the folders that I would need to back up so that all I would need to do incase of a disaster is use the large DVD system image of the system and then use the latest CDRW/CDR and restore back the customer files and relevent configuration files.

Thanks

[till]

Originally Posted by mphayesuk

1) Is there a better solution to doing a full system image so that I can burn the image to dvd and then be able to restore from those images. The guides talk about backing up to remote servers which I dont have.

You can try e.g. partimage, i dont know if norton ghost supports all the different linux filesystems.

2) Can you back user folders ect... to CD RW's and then reuse them

Use tar with options to preseve the owners and permissions (tar pcfz ....)

3) Can someone list all the folders that I would need to back up so that all I would need to do incase of a disaster is use the large DVD system image of the system and then use the latest CDRW/CDR and restore back the customer files and relevent configuration files.

/var
/etc
/home

If you want to have a smaller backup you should exclude /var/log and /var/spool

[mphayesuk]

I assume that /root/ispconfig director never gets changed then, and so restoreing this from a system image will be fine.

[till]

Originally Posted by mphayesuk

I assume that /root/ispconfig director never gets changed then, and so restoreing this from a system image will be fine.

Yes. It changes only if you update ISPConfig.

[mphayesuk]

I have done a full image of the server using ghost 2003 which worked and tested with a full restore just to be sure, now for the daily backups this is what I thought of doing... very simple backup...

************************************************** *************************************
/etc/init.d/ispconfig_server stop

T1-01:~ # tar pcfz /tmp/SystemBackup/Storage/archives/test1.tar /home
T1-01:~ # tar pcfz /tmp/SystemBackup/Storage/archives/test2.tar /vat
T1-01:~ # tar pcfz /tmp/SystemBackup/Storage/archives/test3.tar /etc

/etc/init.d/ispconfig_server start

************************************************** ****************************************
Or this line:

T1-01:~ # tar pcfz /tmp/SystemBackup/Storage/archives/full.tar /home /var /etc

which should back up the contents of all the important ispconfig dirs to my storage system.

Now is there a problem with any of the above code... as I said very simple but it should work....

Also I wanted to put the backup onto a cdr or dvdr or dvdrw.... what would I need to do to make this automatic.

Thanks

[falko]

Originally Posted by mphayesuk

I have done a full image of the server using ghost 2003 which worked and tested with a full restore just to be sure, now for the daily backups this is what I thought of doing... very simple backup...

************************************************** *************************************
/etc/init.d/ispconfig_server stop

T1-01:~ # tar pcfz /tmp/SystemBackup/Storage/archives/test1.tar /home
T1-01:~ # tar pcfz /tmp/SystemBackup/Storage/archives/test2.tar /vat
T1-01:~ # tar pcfz /tmp/SystemBackup/Storage/archives/test3.tar /etc

/etc/init.d/ispconfig_server start

************************************************** ****************************************
Or this line:

T1-01:~ # tar pcfz /tmp/SystemBackup/Storage/archives/full.tar /home /var /etc

which should back up the contents of all the important ispconfig dirs to my storage system.

Now is there a problem with any of the above code... as I said very simple but it should work....

Looks good, should work!

[mphayesuk]

Good... what about putting the files on dvdr/dvdrw/cdr/cdrw I know I could do it manually but there must be a way to add something to the backup scripts to copy them over when the taring is finished.

Any suggestions

[alex916]

Time ago i make a dvd backup in this way.

Install dvd+rw-tools,cdrecord and mkisofs
In debian:
#apt-get install dvd+rw-tools
This install all packages that we need.

#dvd+rw-format /dev/cdrom -blank
Format the dvd+rw if you want use a rw dvd

#mkisofs -J -R -l -o /tmp/image.iso /tmp/test1.tar /tmp/test2.tar [every file you want]

#dvdrecord --dev=/dev/cdrom -dao /tmp/image.iso

If you want to test your image.iso before burning it
#mount -o loop image.iso /mnt

I used this command a lot of time ago, a test could be good

Bye
Alex

[transops.net]

Depending on your needs, it may be easier and safer for you to install a removeable IDE hard drive kit in your server and do backups with dd for a full system image. Hard drives are cheap, and you don't have to worry about spanning over multiple DVD-ROM images for large systems. This is exactly the setup I have at a client's office; once a month I pop a drive into the bay, image the main disk(s), and walk away with the full backup in hand a couple of hours later.

[philokoi]

Hello,

Regarding your Image, I am looking for a similar system to create an image of a running Linux, is there a way to do this without stopping the system?

Installing a software and running it at a certain time and creating a clone
of your entire disk on a usb disk?

This to be sure to be able to recover from a disk crash.

Thank you,

Philippe