Re: simple backup script
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 01:42:25 +0200,
"Yves Goergen" <nospam.list@unclassified.de> wrote in message
<[🔎] 02da01c370e2$b3abb3c0$fe78a8c0@yves>:
> On Tuesday, September 02, 2003 1:15 AM CET, Marcus Schopen wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm looking for a simple backup script, which uses e.g. dd and
> > additionally does some error handling and mail notification. I use
> > amanda for my daily and weekly backups, but to feel more secure, I
> > installed a second harddrive in my server today. Now I'm looking for
> > a nice and secure script, which does a full backup of the first
> > harddisk each day.
..'tar cf mail-spool-`date` /var/spool/mail' on Fridays and tar af
etc on weekdays? Leaving out compression facilitates diff'ing etc,
compression saves space and bandwidth but needs cpu oomph, YMWV.
..on completion, scp to an off-site backup box, businesses survive
fires etc with off-site backup, and dies without. Script game.
> Why don't you just use RAID to mirror your harddisk?
>
> Saves you daily backups and gives you instant backup on failure. And
> IIRC your system can keep on running 'on one tyre'.
...such as /var/spool on ext3 on raid-1 going ro for a coupl'a
days on a wee journal cock-up? "The best of 2 worlds!". ;-)
..monitoring and fix ideas? I mean, a kernel panic is a bit
overkill when "the flat tire can be patched-n-pumped". ;-)
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