Backing up SOHO server

Jim Stapleton stapleton.41 at gmail.com
Sun Oct 22 19:32:32 UTC 2006


Hmm, not familiar with "dump" or "restore", but what I would suggest,
is when you can get some down time, boot from a live cd, and using a
dd/bzip2/split combo (or any other method of your choice), make a
backup image of the drive as well, If you get a new drive with the
same size/etc, it'll massively speed up the reinstall phase. When you
recover, all you need is cat/bunzip2/dd to do the restore. It's quite
a bit faster than a reinstall, especially if you compile your own apps
- it saved me a lot of time when my notebook died.

Sorry I couldn't be more help with your specific questions.
-Jim Stapleton

On 10/22/06, esavage at reyrey.net <esavage at reyrey.net> wrote:
> All,
>
> I have freebsd 6.1 installed running Samba authenticating my home users and pc's and home shares for each user. This also serves as a web development box for my internal network. Because there is a login script that runs to map drives on the remote pc's all users are accustomed to dumping there important data there. I am trying to come up with a backup and restore plan.
>
> Just plan to do complete dumps with the script below once a week which is good for me due to the fact of how the box is used. If a total drive crash happens  I will just reinstall from cd then use restore to recover the dump. I am backing up to a usb drive connected to the server. I have printed the file system and taped it to the top of the usb drive hehehehe.
>
> Any other input would be appreciated. Also on the restore portion I plan to just cd into that slice and run
>
> dd if=/mnt/backup/file/<Backup.gz> |gzip -d |restore -rf -
>
> Since this is for home use and protection for only disasster/drive failure a new install will be done, will retore over write what is there to restore the old contents?
>
> vader# df -H
> Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/ad0s1a    260M     55M    184M    23%    /
> devfs          1.0k    1.0k      0B   100%    /dev
> /dev/ad0s1g     20G     10G    8.1G    56%    /home
> /dev/ad0s1d    1.0G    223k    954M     0%    /tmp
> /dev/ad0s1f     12G    2.5G    9.0G    22%    /usr
> /dev/ad0s1e    4.2G    620M    3.2G    16%    /var
> /dev/ad4s1     242G    122G    100G    55%    /music
> devfs          1.0k    1.0k      0B   100%    /var/named/dev
> /dev/da0s1d    116G    6.8G    100G     6%    /mnt/backup
> vader# more /etc/fstab
> # Device                Mountpoint      FStype  Options         Dump    Pass#
> /dev/ad0s1b             none            swap    sw              0       0
> /dev/ad0s1a             /               ufs     rw              1       1
> /dev/ad0s1g             /home           ufs     rw              2       2
> /dev/ad0s1d             /tmp            ufs     rw              2       2
> /dev/ad0s1f             /usr            ufs     rw              2       2
> /dev/ad0s1e             /var            ufs     rw              2       2
> /dev/ad4s1              /music          ufs     rw              3       3
> /dev/acd0               /cdrom          cd9660  ro,noauto       0       0
>
> The backup script
>
> vader# more dumpbackup.sh
> #!/bin/sh
> mount -t ufs /dev/da0s1d /mnt/backup/
> dump=/sbin/dump
> chflags=/bin/chflags
> dt=`date +%Y%m%d`
> destpath=/mnt/backup/file
> lvl=0
>
> # /
> src1=/dev/ad0s1a
> # /home
> src2=/dev/ad0s1g
> # /var
> src3=/dev/ad0s1e
> # /usr
> src4=/dev/ad0s1f
>
> dest1=$destpath/root_ad0s1a_l0_$dt.gz
> dest2=$destpath/home_ad0s1g_l0_$dt.gz
> dest3=$destpath/var_ad0s1e_l0_$dt.gz
> dest4=$destpath/usr_ad0s1f_l0_$dt.gz
>
> # Exceptions NO BACKUP
> $chflags -R nodump /usr/ports/
> $chflags -R nodump /usr/src/
> $chflags -R nodump /usr/obj/
> $chflags -R nodump /mnt/backup/
>
> # Fullbackup Level 0 Monthly
> $dump -$lvl -Lauf - $src1 | gzip -2 | dd of=$dest1
> $dump -$lvl -Lauf - $src2 | gzip -2 | dd of=$dest2
> $dump -$lvl -Lauf - $src3 | gzip -2 | dd of=$dest3
> $dump -$lvl -Lauf - $src4 | gzip -2 | dd of=$dest4
>
> #Finish Comments
> umount /mnt/backup/
> echo "Finished Another Weeks Backup"
> vader#
>
>
>
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