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Backup in Action
I blogged about my backup concept a while ago – and now, I finally managed to get at least the client side finished. The problem was that the tar-file with the backup stuff got too big – and this ended up in weird error messages. After some manual testing, I ended up with a final [...]
Backup on the server
As already discussed yesterday, I am going for some serious backup stuff now. Here’s the server’s rsnapshot.conf: config_version 1.2 snapshot_root /mnt/usbhd/ cmd_cp /bin/cp cmd_rm /bin/rm cmd_rsync /usr/bin/rsync cmd_logger /usr/bin/logger cmd_du /bin/du cmd_rsnapshot_diff /usr/bin/rsnapshot-diff interval fullbackup 6 verbose 2 loglevel 3 logfile /var/log/rsnapshot.log exclude_file /etc/rsnapshot.exclude link_dest 1 # LOCALHOST backup /home/ localhost/ backup /etc/ localhost/ backup_script [...]
A backup concept
OK, after yesterday’s disaster, I decided that I need a new backup concept. Here’s the basic plan: On the client, I will install rsnapshot; it will snapshot my own home-dir and the client’s /etc-dir to a directory called ~/.client-backup. After the backup is completed, I will create a tarball of this whole directory and put [...]
Bad Day: Deleted my whole data directory
Today is my bad day. I just by accident typed “rm -rdf *” in my home directory on the server – and all data is gone now. Unfortunately, my last backup is way too old to be useful…. so, I now have to work out whether I can restore some files from this reiserFS partition. [...]
