On Monday 01 March 2004 21:28, Barry Samuels wrote:
I discovered, a few weeks ago, a backup script called Flexbackup which I rather like.
I can use it to backup a remote machine via ssh. Once ssh is setup to do a password-less login Flexbackup can do the rest.
Any technical gems gratefully received.
I have some kludgey backup scripts that used to take care of a pool of CVS servers at a Games Development company I used to work at.
Run from a central administration machine they remotely tar'ed and compressed the respoitory and then sent it across to the central machine where it was dumped onto tape. Uses make to allow the jobs to run concurrently on all of the machines, provides full email of error conditions and all of the other usual goodies, again used ssh to log into each of the CVS machines. Used to same system to grab backups of a game server and CRM type system at Level 3 Co Lo.
If anyone is interested then I can mail them over to you, probably need some refinement but they do the job.
Sorry Barry but they didn't cover the restore operation.