Re: Success Stories

On 02/18 05:34 , Hamish Guthrie wrote:
> Would you have backed up the entire system (OK excluding /proc and maybe a
> few other files), or do you just back up selected directories?

back up the whole thing, except for /proc, /sys, and things like squid
caches.

> How did you go about the restoration process?

- boot the target machine with Knoppix
- set up your partitions and format them
- mount the target partition and any partitions on it (just create the paths
  for the mountpoints if need be)
- set a netcat process listening and piping to tar; something like:
  nc -l -p 8888|tar xzvp -C /path/to/target/dir
- on the backuppc server, use BackupPC_tarCreate to build a tarball of the
  backup you want, pipe that through gzip, then pipe it to netcat in order
  to send it across the wire
  /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate -h <hostname> -n -1 -s / /|gzip|
nc 192.168.123.123 8888
- once the file transfer is done; rebuild your boot sector on the target
  machine, and you should be good to go

Really, BackupPC makes restoration about as easy as *any* tool I've worked
with. Only thing simpler is Mondo (http://www.mondorescue.org/); but that
works somewhat differently and has different design goals.

-- 
Carl Soderstrom
Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
www.real-time.com


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