[vox-tech] What not to backup on RH9/apache

[Jack LaPlante]

Rod Roark wrote:

> I think you want to read up on rsync.  You can get it to
> copy only what's changed, so you don't have to worry so much
> about excluding things.
> 
> -- Rod
rsync will not work, AFAIK, because I can _only_ ftp into the backup 
server.  Can't get in via rsh, ssh, telnet. I guess I could rsync 
locally (on the same ded. server I'm bakcing up), then ftp to the backup 
server.  But does that make sense?


> 
> On Sunday 14 November 2004 12:23 pm, Jack LaPlante wrote:
> 
>>I used to host about 12 clients by reselling CIHost shared accts, now I 
>>have my own dedicated server (at 1and1.com) and have been moving clients 
>>to it over the past few months.  CIHost claims nightly backups, but when 
>>a drive failed there  a couple of weeks ago, the most recent backup they 
>>had was 9 months old. My best customers were still on that drive and 
>>were quite pissed off! <insert long boring rant here> So now I am 
>>setting up a backup regime on my dedicated server.
>>
>>I'm buying the backup server from 1and1, and it is accessible only by 
>>logging in from my root server.  There's no bandwidth charge for ftping 
>>on their internal network.  I guess I will use tar to create a local 
>>archive on the root server, then ftp the compressed archive to the 
>>backup server.  I'm assuming I can automate this with bash scripts and cron.
>>
>>Basically, I want to be as all-inclusive as I can, so if my HD fails 
>>there will be as little interuption as possible.  So I thought I would 
>>include everything *except* certain directories.  The root server is 
>>RH9/apache.  What are the obvious directories to exclude from backing 
>>up?  And is this basically a sound backup plan?
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