hi ya brad
-- many hundred/thousands of ways to do backup...
-- i implement something similar to your stuff..
BackupServer:/Backup/HOST/Month/day.tgz
( one of 3 place where all backup files are stored )
backup server should export the host directory to each host
-- you should keep backups on ( 3 ) different servers...
- daily incrementals....
- weekly 8 day incrementals
- full weekly backups... ( or monthly..
-- backups should run locally on each PC to copy off
"root protected files"
-- backups for Win98 can be done similarly...
- need to have samba installed on the linux box...
and test that you can see the windoze shares
- backup the windoze boxes from the backupserver itself
-- you can also do the same to write to tape instead of a backup file..
- use a "-tape" option in the backup script
have fun
alvin
http://www.Linux-Backup.net
in cron....
# daily
1 01 * * * /path/Backup.pl
# weekly
1 01 * * 6 /path/Backup.pl -inc32 -dir /Backup.WEEKLY
# weekly full
1 02 * * 0 /usr/scripts/Backup.pl -Full -dir /Backup.FULL
the ( 3-line ) backup script itself... many different flavors...
but basically, its all you need:
- script check for the right options... and perform the
corresponding backup
daily backups would:
mount BackupServer:/path/HOST /Backup
tar zcvf /Backup/$YearMonth/$Date.tgz ` find /etc /home -mtime -1 -print`
umount /Backup
weekly backups would:
mount BackupWEEKLY:/path/HOST /Backup.W
tar zcvf /Backup.W/$YearMonth/$Date.tgz ` find /etc /home -mtime -8 -print`
umount /Backup.W
weekly full backups would:
mount BackupFULL:/path/HOST /Backup.FULL
tar zcvf /Backup.FULL/$YearMonth/$Date.FULL.tgz /etc /home
umount /Backup.Full
--
-- more complicated than a 3 line script... if ya wanna get more done...
--
On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Brad Cramer wrote:
> I have a small network at home (4 linux machine 2 win98 machines) and I
> would like to know what would be the best way to back these up to one server
> that has a scsi dat drive. I have tries afbackup but am having a heck of a
> time getting it configured. Is there a simpler way of doing this. I am
> mainly worried about the linux machine, not the win98 machines as they are
> my kids and the info on them isn't important. Is there a way I could use tar
> to do weekly full and daily incremental backups and copy these to an nfs
> mount on the server with the dat drive. I would like them to to be named
> hostname.date.full/incr.tar.gz so I can tell what goes where and I am not
> worried about backing up the stuff I can restore from a fresh install just
> the stuff I can't. any advice or pointers would be appreciated or if someone
> could simplify afbackup for me that would help. BTW 3 of the linux machines
> are running Debian one is running RedHat.
> Thanks
> Brad
>
