XO Backup to server

[Juliano Bittencourt]

     Hi Marc,

     We needed a backup/restore solution asap. So we choosed to used the 
tools that are already available in build 385, in this case, rsync. I 
will get a look into rdiff-backup and try it with the laptops we have 
for testing. After that a return a report about these tests.

      Juliano

Marc E. Fiuczynski escreveu:
> Hello Juliano,
>
> Just out of curiosity, have you considered using "rdiff-backup"?
> http://dries.ulyssis.org/rpm/packages/rdiff-backup/info.html
>
> rdiff-backup uses rsync and adds to that the best features of a mirror 
> and an incremental backup.
>
> Marc
>
>
> Juliano Bittencourt wrote:
>>
>>
>>    Hi guys,
>>
>>    My name is Juliano Bittencourt and I work in one of the XO trials 
>> in Brazil. We have 100 laptops here in Porto Alegre being used by two 
>> 4th grades and two 6th grades. One of the main problems we have is 
>> related to keep the laptops SO updated since they already have user 
>> data. Jim Gettys was here during the FISL congress and suggested us 
>> to use rsync as a way to easily do the backup of the laptops into a 
>> server.
>>     We followed his tip and created two small shell scripts to do the 
>> backup/restore job as a temporary solution. We created a customized 
>> image of the system using the save-nand OFW command witch includes 
>> these scripts.  We configured the backup script at runlevels 0 and 6, 
>> so each laptop keeps synced with the server. This is also helping us 
>> to see what kind of productions the kids are doing. Since we are 
>> conducting a formal research during the trials, being able to see 
>> what kind of documents kids are writing is very important.
>>     To create a directory in the server for each laptop we used the 
>> MAC address of  eth0.
>>      If anyone has any suggestion to make our scripts work better, 
>> please fell free to send patches.
>>
>>      Best,
>>
>>       Juliano
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Library
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> #!/bin/sh
>>
>> export PATH=$PATH:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin
>>
>> # directory to backup
>> BDIR=/home/olpc/
>>
>> # excludes file - this contains a wildcard pattern per line of files 
>> to exclude
>> EXCLUDES=/etc/backup_excludes
>>
>> # the name of the backup machine
>> BSERVER=192.168.0.1
>>
>> DIRNAME=`/sbin/ifconfig -a | grep 'HWaddr' | head -1 | awk '{ print 
>> $5 }'`;
>>
>> # your password on the backup server
>> #export RSYNC_PASSWORD=vai_will
>>
>>
>> ########################################################################
>>
>> BACKUPDIR=$BDIR/backup/$DIRNAME
>>
>> OPTS="--force --ignore-errors --exclude-from=$EXCLUDES       --delete 
>> -a"
>>
>> # now the actual transfer
>> rsync $OPTS $BDIR $BSERVER::olpc/$DIRNAME
>>
>> exit 0
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> #!/bin/sh
>>
>> export PATH=$PATH:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin
>>
>> # directory to backup
>> BDIR=/home/olpc/
>>
>> # excludes file - this contains a wildcard pattern per line of files 
>> to exclude
>> EXCLUDES=/etc/backup_excludes
>>
>> # the name of the backup machine
>> BSERVER=192.168.0.1
>>
>> DIRNAME=`/sbin/ifconfig -a | grep 'HWaddr' | head -1 | awk '{ print 
>> $5 }'`;
>>
>> # your password on the backup server
>> #export RSYNC_PASSWORD=vai_will
>>
>>
>> ########################################################################
>>
>> BACKUPDIR=$BDIR/backup/$DIRNAME
>>
>> OPTS="--force --ignore-errors --exclude-from=$EXCLUDES
>>       --delete -a"
>>
>> # now the actual transfer
>> rsync $OPTS $BSERVER::olpc/$DIRNAME/ $BDIR
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
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