[BlueOnyx:05569] Re: Backups

[Ole-Bjørn Olsen]

Hi,

 

I have been watching this thread/discussion going on,

and I would like to share my experience .. or solution would be a more
fitting word I guess :P

 

I guess we go take a but to many backups, but this is what we do:

 

-          RAQbackup

o   Takes backup of all sites, with users.

o   This is done so that we can resore site per site when this is needed.

-          BackupPC

o   This is the most interesting.

o   This is a system meant to take backup of machines within a network.

o   We on the other hand use this to get a backup history of our BQ/BO web
servers.

o   This system can take backup based on rsync, or rsyncd.

o   .. read more about it here:

§   <http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/info.html>
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/info.html

-          KVM/OpenVZ (With ProxMox web GUI)

o   We will be taking snapshots of virtual machines in near future, with the
advantage of a 5 – 30 min disaster recovery over gigabit network : )

 

I do see that most of you have way larger web servers than we do, 

so I assume that the rsyncd would be the most fitted solution for you, 

although, my version does not have the possibility to do a disaster
recovery, 

sins I have not included any apache configuration, user backup, or mysql
dump .. and so on :P


 nor do I know how to :P sorry : )

 

Sincerely,

Ole-Bjørn Olsen

DataService Rjukan AS 

+47 405 54 811

 

Fra: blueonyx-bounces at blueonyx.it [mailto:blueonyx-bounces at blueonyx.it] På
vegne av Tony C. Loosle
Sendt: 13. oktober 2010 19:45
Til: jeffrey at px2co.net; BlueOnyx General Mailing List
Emne: [BlueOnyx:05566] Re: Backups

 

Yes I would like to see or use your script.  Seems most people are using
some form of rsync.

 

I use ftp over gigabit ethernet and raqbackup.  The sites are huge!  Even
going over local Gigabit ethernet it takes a almost a full day.

 

I am not familiar with rsync.  Is this possible or will the load kill the
server?

 

Install a new BX with lots of extra drive space.   Have server 1 rsync to
server 2 and visa versa? 

 

Anymore the cost of the hardware is not the issue.  Its the heat and power.


 

tony

 

 

> Hi Tony,

> 

> 

> We have a few hundred cms sites that are quite busy. We use rsync

> to maintain a live copy of the home files on a remote server.

> Because it only copies the changed files it's very quick. We run

> this hourly, plus all the databases nightly, then each night after

> the database sync we rsync the remote backup server onto a 

> removable disk which we change daily.

> 

> 

> Of course, we're not at all paranoid :)

> 

> 

> The scripts are quite straightforward - let me know if you need a

> look at them

> 

> 

> Regards

> 

> 

> Jeffrey

> 

> 

> On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 10:13:45 -0600, "Tony C. Loosle" <tony-blue at s1-

> i.net> wrote:

> 

>> Has anyone had any success with anything other than raqbackup?

>> 

> ie, Backup Exec?  I have not tried to install it yet.  Wondering if

> anyone has it working.

> 

> A couple of my servers take almost 24 hours to complete a raqbackup

> and ftp the files over.  Makes the server almost useless during

> that time.   Most of the files don't need to be backed up weekly.  

> I am moving the raqbackup to monthly, but would like to find a

> better, faster option.  

> 

> tony

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