{"id":1438,"date":"2015-08-14T09:59:08","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T17:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/systemsolver.com\/StatlerBlog\/?p=1438"},"modified":"2015-08-14T09:59:08","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T17:59:08","slug":"backups-for-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/2015\/08\/14\/backups-for-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Backups for Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: black ! important;\" data-blkn-colour=\"rgba(51,51,51,1)\">System backup a manual approach<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/community.linuxmint.com\/tutorial\/view\/1577\">http:\/\/community.linuxmint.com\/tutorial\/view\/1577<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: black ! important;\" data-blkn-colour=\"rgba(51,51,51,1)\">I found the best little article on Linux backups on wiki.ArchLinux.org. It summarizes what needs to be backed up and what to exclude very well.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"color: black ! important;\" data-blkn-colour=\"rgba(51,51,51,1)\">\n<li style=\"color: black ! important;\" data-blkn-colour=\"rgba(51,51,51,1)\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.archlinux.org\/index.php\/Full_system_backup_with_rsync\">https:\/\/wiki.archlinux.org\/index.php\/Full_system_backup_with_rsync<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"color: black ! important;\" data-blkn-colour=\"rgba(51,51,51,1)\">This article has a nice list of what to backup and why.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"color: black ! important;\" data-blkn-colour=\"rgba(51,51,51,1)\">\n<li style=\"color: black ! important;\" data-blkn-colour=\"rgba(51,51,51,1)\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techradar.com\/us\/news\/software\/applications\/linux-backup-the-complete-guide-933134\">http:\/\/www.techradar.com\/us\/news\/software\/applications\/linux-backup-the-complete-guide-933134<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"color: black ! important;\" data-blkn-colour=\"rgba(51,51,51,1)\">There is also FSArchiver which is said to make a good live backup:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"color: black ! important;\" data-blkn-colour=\"rgba(51,51,51,1)\">\n<li style=\"color: black ! important;\" data-blkn-colour=\"rgba(51,51,51,1)\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fsarchiver.org\/Live-backup\">http:\/\/www.fsarchiver.org\/Live-backup<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"color: black ! important;\" data-blkn-colour=\"rgba(51,51,51,1)\">And that article references SystemRescueCD for PSE network boot and restore<\/p>\n<ul style=\"color: black ! important;\" data-blkn-colour=\"rgba(51,51,51,1)\">\n<li style=\"color: black ! important;\" data-blkn-colour=\"rgba(51,51,51,1)\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sysresccd.org\/Sysresccd-manual-en_PXE_network_booting\">http:\/\/www.sysresccd.org\/Sysresccd-manual-en_PXE_network_booting<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"color: black ! important;\" data-blkn-colour=\"rgba(51,51,51,1)\">Here&#8217;s an article describing how to manage a windows or linux server that is in a datacenter remotely, from your office<\/p>\n<ul style=\"color: black ! important;\" data-blkn-colour=\"rgba(51,51,51,1)\">\n<li style=\"color: black ! important;\" data-blkn-colour=\"rgba(51,51,51,1)\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sysresccd.org\/Sysresccd-manual-en_Manage_remote_windows_linux_servers_using_SystemRescueCd\">http:\/\/www.sysresccd.org\/Sysresccd-manual-en_Manage_remote_windows_linux_servers_using_SystemRescueCd<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"color: black ! important;\" data-blkn-colour=\"rgba(51,51,51,1)\">Also, do a search on this site for backups, I did write some things a few years ago<\/p>\n<ul style=\"color: black ! important;\" data-blkn-colour=\"rgba(51,51,51,1)\">\n<li style=\"color: black ! important;\" data-blkn-colour=\"rgba(51,51,51,1)\"><a href=\"http:\/\/systemsolver.com\/StatlerBlog\/?s=backup\">http:\/\/systemsolver.com\/StatlerBlog\/?s=backup<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"color: black ! important;\" data-blkn-colour=\"rgba(51,51,51,1)\">This comment<a href=\"http:\/\/unix.stackexchange.com\/questions\/41399\/system-image-of-running-debian-system\"> http:\/\/unix.stackexchange.com\/questions\/41399\/system-image-of-running-debian-system<\/a> seems relevant:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: black ! important;\" data-blkn-colour=\"rgba(51,51,51,1)\">\n<p style=\"color: black ! important;\" data-blkn-colour=\"rgba(51,51,51,1)\">I have tried so much backup and restore software and was never happy. This is what I do now: I have a second Debian installed on a spare computer (same MB, NIC card, etc). Every evening I rsync from machine A to machine B. There are some files that I hold back (\/etc\/network\/interfaces, \/etc\/hosts, \/etc\/hostname) since I don&#8217;t want conflicts of the two running systems. Actually, I do have copies of them in another folder. I also disable some services that I don&#8217;t need to run on machine B (postfix, mysql, etc). I have a script written on machine B that will basically turn it into machine A (replace those files that I held back), restart the NIC and enable the services that were disabled. Of course machine A needs to be off when I run the script or there will be havoc. I test machine B monthly by turning off machine A, running the script, and doing some tests to make sure it is up to date and running properly. It works like a charm!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>System backup a manual approach http:\/\/community.linuxmint.com\/tutorial\/view\/1577 I found the best little article on Linux backups on wiki.ArchLinux.org. It summarizes what needs to be backed up and what to exclude very well. https:\/\/wiki.archlinux.org\/index.php\/Full_system_backup_with_rsync This article has a nice list of what to backup and why. http:\/\/www.techradar.com\/us\/news\/software\/applications\/linux-backup-the-complete-guide-933134 There is also FSArchiver which is said to make a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-linux"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}