Backup your server

[brononius]

Hey,

Of course, it's always nice to have a complete image of your server in case of failure. But in the field, this is a bit hard. Shutdown the server, start your image manually, restart server. Downtime server: x-hours...

There's a backup option in the webmin, but i recall that this wasn't working for 100%.
For the moment, i created a folder and small script that copies automatically every night all files i ever changed. For example the dchp-extra file, eibd files...

It would be nice that all configuration (db?) would be copied each night to a remote storage, no?
Than when a crash occurs, you can reinstall and restore an up to date config...

Any thoughts about the best way to backup your configuration daily?

[Marie.O]

The web admin based backup executes the shell script /usr/pluto/bin/PlutoRestorePoint.sh - You can easily execute that shell script from a cron job each night.

Look at the script, and see if it does indeed backup everything you want backed up. If stuff is missing, feel free to open a trac ticket detailing what should be backed up as well.