Advice on backup scheme for FreeBSD 5.3 box

[bob at a1poweruser.com]

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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of steve
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 10:53 AM
To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Subject: Advice on backup scheme for FreeBSD 5.3 box


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).

I’m at the point now, because I’m 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 box’s
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 don’t think it’s just
a
simple matter of popping in the 5.3 install disk and re-installing.

So I’m trying to figure out a scheme to avoid more than a couple
hours of
downtime.

I should note that in a few weeks I’ll 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 don’t work in the IT
industry and I have zero knowledge of things like mirroring boxes or
using
applications like rsync so I’m looking for a guidance on a “simple”
solution.

Thank you much in advance.

Steve
www.digitalbluesky.net
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