[CLUE-Tech] Disaster Recovery (was Linux laptop)

[Brandon N]

In my previous life as an NT Administrator one of my primary duties was
backups.  As a result, I've grown to despise tapes.  I can see thier
use in data warehouses, but with as little data as I have, a couple of
CD-RW's works perfect.


--- Jeffery Cann <jccann at home.com> wrote:
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> On Monday 25 June 2001 22:58, Brandon N wrote:
> >
> > For the actual OS stuff I think I have two solutions.  I can save a
> > list of the packages installed on the system, 
> 
> On slackware, this list of installed packages is in the
> /var/log/packages 
> directory.  Just make a backup of that directory.  Or if you simply
> want a 
> list of the packages installed:
> 
> $ cat /var/log/packages > ~/installed-packages.lst
> 
> > Disaster recovery is a very complicated issue and I would definatly
> be
> > interested in hearing thoughts about mine or other peoples plans.
> 
> I do a single tape, nightly backup.  I am not using any tape
> software, 
> becuase I was too impatient to set it up.  So, I wrote a shell script
> 
> (backup.sh) that uses tar (Tape ARchiver).  This script reads a file
> called 
> '.backup' in the $HOME directory for each user I wish to backup.  The
> .backup 
> file may be different for each user.  It also backs-up /etc/ and
> /root.  
> Finally, the crontab entry below that runs the backup.sh command (for
> root) 
> at 2 am each night.  The output of the backup.sh script - there is a
> lot, 
> since I use the v flag for tar - is sent via mail to root.  This
> provides a 
> log of the job process.
> 
> This is not a particularly sophisticated system, but it works for my
> single 
> workstation.  When I need to add more files, I simply add them to the
> .backup 
> file for the particular user.  If I want to backup a new user, I add
> the user 
> to the backup.sh file.
> 
> My tape drive is a HP Colorado 2.5 GB Native / 5.0 GB  Compressed.  
> It has 
> worked quite well.  I have had to restore twice (in 2 years) since I
> started 
> doing nightly backups.  
> 
> Later
> Jeff
> 
> - --------------------- backup.sh -----------------
> # Load tape module
>  echo "Loading tape module..."
> cd /lib/modules/2.2.13/block
> insmod ide-tape
>  
> # Archive
> echo "Archiving..."
> tar cvfP /dev/ht0 /etc /root `cat /home/jccann/.backup` 
> `cat /home/cvs/.backup`
>  
> echo "Validating..."
> tar dvf /dev/ht0
> 
> # Remove tape module
> echo "Removing tape module..."
> rmmod ide-tape
> - ---------------------- end ------------------
> 
> 
> # crontab entry for root
> # backup the system at 2 am
> 00 2 * * * /root/backup.sh
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