From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 24 14:57:20 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC2F5106568F for ; Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:57:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jalmberg@identry.com) Received: from smtp-gw29.mailanyone.net (smtp-gw29.mailanyone.net [208.70.128.55]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7E1E8FC08 for ; Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:57:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailanyone.net by smtp-gw29.mailanyone.net with esmtpa (MailAnyone extSMTP jalmberg@identry.com) id 1Mfaz1-0007am-M5 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 24 Aug 2009 09:57:19 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753.1) In-Reply-To: <4A8FF981.7020707@locolomo.org> References: <9F9B85A9-CC10-4793-B38D-4F1E1929BAF6@identry.com> <5A8F63C4-7244-410A-B115-9681709855B5@goldmark.org> <4A8FF981.7020707@locolomo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <559375B5-3DCB-42E0-B233-B0916C6FBD9C@identry.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Almberg Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:57:18 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.753.1) Subject: Re: What should be backed up? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:57:20 -0000 > If you have any databases or ldap service, then you want to add > those as well, but it is recommended to dump these rather than > backup the files themselves. I'm learning a lot from this thread. Thanks for all the suggestions. The paragraph above raises one more question... how to use the backup_script feature of rsnapshot. There is a mysql database on the server I want to backup. At the moment, I have a cron script on the web server that periodically dumps the database into one of the directories that gets backed up. This works fine, but I am about to experiment with the backup_script feature of rsnapshot. I'll be darned if I can find an example in the HowTo or on the web for using backup_script remotely, but I'm hoping it's possible... I'd like to have the backup script on the backup server, rather than the remote server. The difference is small for one server, but if you are backing up several servers, or several hundred servers, it would be much nicer for all the backup configuration and scripts to be on the backup server, rather than scattered around on the net. So, I'm going to take the trial and error approach to getting this to work today, unless someone has actually done this and can provide any information (for example "that's impossible... the backup script needs to be on the remote server" would save me a lot of work!) Thanks: John