Backup
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Overview
There are two primary sources for backup files, hosts and homes. Each server in the FG network sends their files to Hosts/maple nightly via rsync and a backup script. The backup scripts are hand crafted for each host and committed to subversion in the fg-admin trunk. Maple has a RAID-5 attached and mounted at /media/backup-archive. One level up is a staging ground where there is a folder for each client that sends a backup to maple, these folders are then rsync'd to the backup RAID nightly and archived incrementally.
Create a New Backup
- check out a working copy of fg-admin. See Guides/Subversion
- make a copy of an existing script and edit it filing in the obvious details (hostname, backup directories)
- commit the changes to subversion
- copy the script to the remote host and install into /usr/sbin/gogo-backup.sh
- edit the /etc/rsyncd.conf file on maple and add a new stanza for the host that will be backing up
- create a folder of the remote client's hostname in /media/backup-archive/staging ie: /media//staging/hemlock
- check the to make sure the forward and reverse DNS resolve for the host. See DNS
- run /usr/sbin/gogo-backup.sh
- If it succeeds then create this cron job
1 1 * * * /usr/sbin/gogo-backup.sh
Recover a Backup
- SSH to maple
- cd to /media/backup-archive/
- locate your file, hosts are in hosts, home folders in net-home
