On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Alvin Oga wrote:
> backup server should export the host directory to each host I'm not too sure about this, because if I manage to compromise the machien being backed up, I can remove your backups on the host server. I ended up setting up a central backup server, that pulls a locally generated backup off the machine, using scp. Instead of pushing the backup up to the server. More disk space required, but works. I modified a script from Joey Hess to handle making compressed backups using tar in 650 meg chunks. (Easy to burn to cd and use to restore with) > -- 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 smbtar is really nice for this. Keep in mind you may have 2gb limits to deal with. I have up to 15 machines being backed up to a central server. I keep at least 7 days of full backups from each machine. I use: smbtar -s server -x share -p password -t filename.tar or smbtar -s server -x share -p password -t - | gzip -1 > filename.tar.gz for compression. Then once i have snagged all the local .tar or .gz's, they get written to an unreliable HP 14 gb Travan drive. In other words, don't bother with the HP travan's, they're horrible :) Slowly working on getting them replaced with 20/40 HP Dat drives. > > -- you can also do the same to write to tape instead of a backup file.. > - use a "-tape" option in the backup script Always have some kind of offline backups. Like i said before, if someone compromises your systems, and manages to compromise your backup server and that was your only copy... Someone can be a person, or a fire/earthquake/etc. Mike
