Advice on backup scheme for FreeBSD 5.3 box
steve
steve at digitalbluesky.net
Wed Apr 20 07:53:29 PDT 2005
I have been using FreeBSD 5.3 now for a couple months on a P4 box at home
and I have been backing up the box nightly by doing a simple .tgz of the
/etc, /usr/home and /var directories to a FreeBSD backup server at home (the
backup server is a PI box).
Im at the point now, because Im using that FreeBSD box to host email for
myself and some production/development web pages, in case the box fails I
want to be able to quickly either rebuild the contents of that boxs hard
drive or move the backup server over to replace it. It took a few weeks to
get the P4 box configured the way I want, so I dont think its just a
simple matter of popping in the 5.3 install disk and re-installing.
So Im trying to figure out a scheme to avoid more than a couple hours of
downtime.
I should note that in a few weeks Ill be replacing the current PI backup
server with a PIII box.
My home network consists of a linksys router with a couple workstations
attached and the above mentioned web and backup servers. The web and backup
servers do not have cd burners, however I could transfer files to one of the
workstations to burn backup disks.
I would like to know in general some approaches I could take to create
either some redundancy in my network at home with the two FreeBSD servers I
have (each has different hardware specs) or more effectively back up the
FreeBSD box doing the email/web hosting for myself. I would consider myself
a moderately competent amateur system admin. I dont work in the IT
industry and I have zero knowledge of things like mirroring boxes or using
applications like rsync so Im looking for a guidance on a simple
solution.
Thank you much in advance.
Steve
www.digitalbluesky.net
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