Re: [SLE] rsync & backup file server
From: Bruce Marshall (bmarsh_at_bmarsh.com)
Date: 03/31/04
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To: SLE <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 14:29:39 -0500
On Wednesday 31 March 2004 02:16 pm, Louis Richards wrote:
> Jack Malone wrote:
> > I'm wanting to have a backup file server running so that if our main
> > server gives up the ghost that I can be back up an running in a matter
> > of little time as possible. Can rsync be used to do this. I was
> > thinking that I could maybe have it setup to where it would sync up
> > the directory on the main server to the backup each night an then if I
> > had a problem with the main one I could transfer the users to the
> > other machine an then be back up in less time. I know that any work
> > done after the sync would not be there but at least I would have the
> > past days data to work with an the users would just have to recreate
> > one days worth of work at the least.
> > If this is not possible can someone suggest another solution that would.
> >
> > I have a raid level 1 running on the server so I have redundant hard
> > drives if one goes bad.
> > I just went threw a problem where the raid controller was what went
> > bad so I was down totally. I have a spare machine that would be ok for
> > a server in a backup roll if needed for a few days.
> >
> > thanks for info.
> >
> >
> > jack malone
> > Network Administrator
> > EAST TEXAS LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND
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> > http://www.horizonind.com
>
> I created a script that is run by cron each night. The script runs
> several commands like the following:
>
> rsync -avz --delete /home 192.168.50.108::backups
Just as a side note, as long as ssh is set up between the machines, you don't
need to touch rsyncd....
rsync -avz --delete -e ssh <rest of stuff>
would work on any machine that allows the ssh connection.
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