Re: Help With Restoring - system disk exercise experience

2003-01-10 Thread Tim Moore
Here's my experience with a recent full restore exercise on a system/boot disk which is among the more interesting scenarios. Rsync Backup Overview - I've a script based on Mike Rubel's rsync/snapshot backup notes (www.mikerubel.org) with two primary differences: 1. Files th

Re: Help With Restoring

2003-01-10 Thread mhanze
"Dr. Poo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/11/2003 09:25:18 AM: > I'm very interested in this... > > My question(s) are why did you have to install a minimal system? > Could you have just booted up with network and rsync and just rsynced to a > freshly paritioned/formatted disk? And your proba

Re: Help With Restoring

2003-01-10 Thread Dr. Poo
I'm very interested in this... My question(s) are why did you have to install a minimal system? Could you have just booted up with network and rsync and just rsynced to a freshly paritioned/formatted disk? What command did you use (to clarify) to make the origal rsync's of your disk, and what w

Re: Help With Restoring

2003-01-09 Thread 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

Re: Help With Restoring

2003-01-08 Thread jw schultz
Using rsync on to restore / might be OK because it creates copies and then renames but in general it is a bad idea to try to restore / in-place. Better to boot from other media, mount root &c on another tree and then restore there. On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 11:20:09PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: Help With Restoring

2003-01-08 Thread mhanze
> > 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/BA

Re: Help With Restoring

2003-01-08 Thread Mike Rubel
> 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_SE

Help With Restoring

2003-01-08 Thread mhanze
Hi All,        I have been using rsync to backup to a central server with a 7 day incremental script on 2 Redhat boxen. #!/bin/sh PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin DAY=`date +%A` export PATH DAY [ -d /root/emptydir ] || mkdir /root/emptydir rsync --rsh=/usr/bin/ssh --delete -a /root/em