Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 21:23:51 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: "Todd Reed" <ex279@hotmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backup Procedures Message-ID: <15272.439.602501.324106@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <70348476@toto.iv>
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Todd Reed <ex279@hotmail.com> types: > How do others backup their system? I mean, do you kick off all users, deny > logins, or does the system get backed up while users are logged in and > working? Yes. > What are the procedures? My standard practice on multiuser systems is to take daily backups while the system is live. The danger here is that files - including directories - can be skipped, or captured in an inconsistent state. For weekly backups, I shut the system down to avoid those problems. Generally, should I need to restore a file that was skipped one day, I can get it off the previous days backup. If someone has something running via cron such that it's never captured properly by dump, it'll still come off the weekly backup. Copies of the weeklies are also sent off-site. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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