On Sat, 2003-12-06 at 14:23, George Georgalis wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 01:33:32PM -0900, W.D.McKinney wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >I'd like to backup a couple of Debian Woody servers remotely to my a
> >Storage array that I was given recently. The servers are are at a local
> >colo and I nad a xDSL connection provided by the ISP that serves the
> >Colo so that's good. I am thinking that someone might have an rysnc
> >script that are using like this ? Is there one available any where ?
> >
>
>
> Sure, here's what I use for taking an image of a system. If you plan
> to restore from your backup don't exclude your hostname, ssh host
> keys, etc. You do want to exclude /proc and any NFS etc though. And
> don't forget '--numeric-ids' as the specific numbers are referenced in
> /etc/{passwd,group}
>
> rsync -av --progress --delete-excluded --numeric-ids \
> --exclude=**/cdrom/* \
> --exclude=**/etc/hostname \
> --exclude=**/etc/mtab \
> --exclude=**/etc/network/interfaces \
> --exclude=**/floppy/* \
> --exclude=**/var/lock/* \
> --exclude=.bash_history \
> --exclude=.viminfo \
> --exclude=/.ssh/id* \
> --exclude=/etc/**/[EMAIL PROTECTED] \
> --exclude=/etc/**/current \
> --exclude=/etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key \
> --exclude=/etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key.pub \
> --exclude=/etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key \
> --exclude=/etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key.pub \
> --exclude=/supervise/status \
> --exclude=/tmp/* \
> --exclude=/var/backups/*gz \
> --exclude=/var/log/**/[EMAIL PROTECTED] \
> --exclude=/var/log/**/current \
> --exclude=/var/log/dmesg \
> --exclude=/var/run/*pid \
> --exclude=/var/tmp/* \
> --exclude=dhclient.leases \
> --exclude=dhcpd.leases \
> --exclude=known_hosts \
> --exclude=locatedb \
> --exclude=ntp.drift \
> --exclude=proc/* \
> --exclude=random-seed \
> --exclude=utmp \
> --exclude=wtmp \
> $src $dest
>
> you'll need "-essh" and root on both sides to read/create all the uids.
>
> Caveat emperor and you may still have some problems with daemontools
> control files being included...
>
Hi George,
Hey thanks I will try this as well. Good to hear from twice in a week
:-)
Dee
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