Re: Help With Restoring

[mhanze]

To Mike and the Rsync community,

        This is by far the greatest utility I have ever used for backing up an entire system. My Redhat server got botched during an upgrade. I reformatted my partitions and installed a minimal system. Rsync'ed the entire / directory back and the server came back to life. databases, websites, hardware configs, everything! I'm back in business.  As a Linux newbie, not a luser, I really appreciate the response I received from Mike and others. As the days pass and my skills refine, I will offer back as much support as I can. I guess you can say another BillyBorg saved :)


Thanks Again!

Mark




> > > rsync --delete --stats --compress --recursive --times --perms --links
> > > --rsh=/usr/bin/ssh --exclude "tmp/" --exclude "dev/" --exclude "proc/"
> > > --exclude "backups/ " --delete-excluded --backup
> > > --backup-dir=/backup2/BACKED_UP_SERVER_FQDN/$DAY -a /*
> > > CENTRAL_SERVER_IP:/backup2/BACKED_UP_SERVER_FQDN/current && echo "Daily
> > > backup ran on `date`" >> /var/log/backup.log
> >
> > Notice that if you have any dotfiles in / (that is, flies that begin with
> > a "."), this will not copy them, but normally you wouldn't have dotfiles
> > in / so it shouldn't matter.  Might want to start using / instead of /*
> > from now on though, just for good form.
>
> Thanks fot the tip :)
>
>
> >
> > > This has been working fine and I've even been able to restore files using
> > > scp from time to time. now I'm faced with a bare metal recovery
> cause of a
> > > botched upgrade from Redhat 7.1 to 8.0 that failed half way through. This
> > > machine was still accessible via console and ssh (putty). I signed in via
> > > ssh and ran...
> > >
> > > # cd /
> > > # scp -r CENTRAL_SERVER_IP:/backup1/BACKED_UP_SERVER_FQDN/current/.* .
> > >
> > > This was running for a while and then i lost my connection and cant
> > > reconnect. I won't have console access till the morning but any advice
> > > would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Don't you mean:
> >
> > scp -rp CENTRAL_SERVER_IP:/backup1/BACKED_UP_SERVER_FQDN/current/. .
> >
> > ?
> >
> > The command you list above won't copy anything, since there are no
> > dotfiles in the root directory.  Also, you have backup2 in the rsync
> > command and backup1 in the scp command.
> >
> > Maybe that was just a typo though...
>
> As never having restored anything more that a few files at a time as
> the Linux newbie that I am,  I'm sure i was off. Thanks for the tip again :)
> Typo it was. Should have been backup2 in the scp command.
>
>
> >
> > One final thought.  Sometimes scp has issues with symlinks (as in, copying
> > the target instead of the link).  Might want to use:
> >
> > cd /
> > rsync -av CENTRAL_SERVER_IP:/backup1/BACKED_UP_SERVER_FQDN/current/ .
>
> I will try this first thing in the morning when I have console access.
>
> Just one more thing; Based on the script I use, am I SOL or with a
> little elbow greese in the morning get my server back?
>
> Thank you for your time and advice. I really appreciate it!!!!!
>
> Mark
>
> >
> > Mike
> >
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