On 08/07/2010 10:46 AM, xserver80 wrote:
Hi All I need to schedule the data backup for 3 servers (2 Debian and 1 Windows) into a dedicated server. The problem is that I can't install any software in none of the data source servers (2 Debian and 1 Windows). The object of my backup are the data exported with samba (2 Debian Server) and ftp server (Win Server). That system should mounted the shares (samba and ftp) for download and check data in other system server. In the future my boss will ask me for the copy of data backup exsisting in the dedicated server backup in the LTO type carthage (or similar). Now I am looking for a software or hardware system to do that. If I don't find any dedicated hardware system I will prepare a dedicate server with big area storage inside. I don't think that a script is a good idea, because I need to keep data saved for long tine and I need to check data during or after each backup cicle. (check data transfer and dada consistance). Can you help me to find a solutions? I will evaluate all solutions thet you post me. Whatever, software and hardware, commercial or free. I must show to my boss the best solution. :-) I thank everybody in advance. Alex
You don't need "Software" all you need is a simple bash script that 1.) GZIP's everything but: proc, sys and others, 2.) signs said backup and then encrypts it and 3.) an SSH cert to the other server and the time to make said simple script. You can even use Perl or PHP, both of which support being daemonized so you can do incremental backups or backups of specific files based on changes. I usually prefer the Perl method, but sometimes am forced to use PHP and when clients flat out refuse to let me daemonize I tell them to do it themselves since it's not my problem anyways I was just being nice and send them an SH script that does exactly what I described.
Here is an example to start you off: #!/bin/bash -e echo $(date): [Info] Starting backup of server_name >> /var/log/backups.log tar cvpjf server_backup.tar.bz2 --same-owner \ --exclude=/proc/* \ --exclude=/media/* \ --exclude=/dev/* \ --exclude=/mnt/* \ --exclude=/sys/* \ --exclude=/tmp/* \ --exclude=/usr/tmp/* \ --exclude=/lost+found/* \ --exclude=/server_backup.tar.bz2You'll of course want to remove server_backup.tar.bz2, generate a certificate to sign and encrypt and move that certificate to your personal PC too and make more log entries throughout the process so you can diagnose a missed backup, but other than that it's pretty simple. Good luck.