<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Jerry,</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Thanks for the testimonial.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I have rsnapshot up and running for
XF backing up the following directories: </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">/etc </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">/root </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">/var/log</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I created, modified and deleted files
to test out the various conditions.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I put the /etc/rsnapshot.conf here:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Az990tony/backup</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">My thinking now is that each machine
will run rsnapshot as follows:</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">* XF will backup its own /etc, /root,
/var/log, plus the etc-root-var/log files of XS and XB</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">* XS will backup its own /etc, /root,
/var/log, plus the etc-root-var/log files of XF and XB</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">* XB will backup its own /etc, /root,
/var/log plus other major directories of XF and XS</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">The full backup of /etc-/root-/var/log
has only been 24MB. Very small.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">The scheme is now: 3 hourly, 5
daily, 4 weekly, 3 monthly</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">* hourly backups will be taken at 9am,
noon, 3pm local time.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">* daily backup will be taken M/T/W/Th/F
at 8:45am</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">* weekly backup will be taken on Wednesday
at noon</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">* monthly backup will be taken on first
weekday of the month, at noon</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">It would be good to know the electricity
schedule (what days, what hours, is electricity available)?</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Also the school schedule. I am
assuming standard M-F, but know that some countries have</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">their week set up differently. Do
the days, weeks and times seem reasonable?</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Items still to work on:</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">* remote backup across SSH between servers.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">* backup of MySQL</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">* backup of /var/www/html Apache infrastructure</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">* identification of installed modules,
applications</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">* scripts to convert XB into XF to bring
it into the system as the XF</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">* scripts to convert XB into XS to bring
it into the system as the XS</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">* scripts to restore any machine from
a base XS-150 pointing to another server with backups</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Thanks<br>
</font>
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<td><font size=1 color=#0060a0 face="Microsoft Sans Serif"><b>Tony Pearson</b></font><font size=1 face="Microsoft Sans Serif"><br>
Senior Storage Consultant, IBM System Storage™<br>
Telephone: +1 520-799-4309 | tie 321-4309 | Cell: +1 520 990-8669<br>
email: tpearson@us.ibm.com | GSA: http://tucgsa.ibm.com/~tpearson<br>
Blog: </font><a href=http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/InsideSystemStorage><font size=1 color=blue face="Microsoft Sans Serif"><u>http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/InsideSystemStorage</u></font></a><font size=1 face="Microsoft Sans Serif"><br>
AKA: 990tony Paravane, eightbar specialist </font>
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