Bug 877

Summary:	Do backup of all servers
Product:	Infrastructure	Reporter:	Nicolas Vigier <boklm>
Component:	Others	Assignee:	Sysadmin Team <sysadmin-bugs>
Status:	ASSIGNED ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal	CC:	flink, fri, marja11, misc, rdalverny, sysadmin-bugs
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:		CVE:
Status comment:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	859
Attachments:	Bash script to make simple backups

Description Nicolas Vigier 2011-04-18 19:00:13 CEST

We need to backup all our servers.

We don't have yet a server dedicated to backups, but it is planned.

However we can already start to look at backup tools to decide what we will use. And start doing backups on one of our servers, maybe jonund or valstar as they have a lot of free space and there is not a lot of data to backup yet.

Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Nicolas Vigier 2011-04-18 19:00:26 CEST

Blocks: (none) => 859

Comment 1 Michael Scherer 2011-04-19 12:26:00 CEST

What should be backed up :
- ldap content
- svn dump
- postgresql dump 
- mysql dump
- various data : 
   - pictures on forums, 
   - pics and attachement on blogs
   - attachement on  bugzilla
   - gpg keys
   - ssl certificates
   - maybe some sympa data ( to be checked )
   - maybe some stuff on tx side ( to be checked too )

CC: (none) => misc

Comment 2 Fernando Ristaño 2011-04-28 02:30:47 CEST

Created attachment 302 [details]
Bash script to make simple backups

At this moment, i'm making this script for backup the servers at work. Maybe i can help doing something similar on mageia servers.

The script is simple. It makes backup of some directories like /etc, /var/www, /var/log, svn repositories and mysql databases(with a external php script).

I dont know if you want use some like bakula or something similar to bash script.

Comment 3 Nicolas Vigier 2011-06-06 22:02:45 CEST

Mail from misc in november :
http://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-sysadm/2010-November/000535.html

Comment 4 Franz Holzinger 2011-06-10 21:03:43 CEST

Why is nothing like Mandrive Click and Backup available with Mageia? Also Ubuntu has a similar backup solution.

See:
http://karl-tux-stadt.de/ktuxs/?p=1202

CC: (none) => flink

Comment 5 Romain d'Alverny 2011-06-10 23:04:06 CEST

(In reply to comment #4)
> Why is nothing like Mandrive Click and Backup available with Mageia?
> Also Ubuntu has a similar backup solution.

Operating such a service for many users brings large costs (storage, bandwidth, availability) that are clearly out of the focus on the Mageia project for now.

Nothing prevents anyway to use existing backup/sync/sharing services with Mageia, be they free/non free, commercial or non-paid-for, hosted in someone else's facility or in your own. There are many tools/solutions for that, but this is out of the scope of this very bug - so please open a separate one if you want to push further this topic. Thanks!

CC: (none) => rdalverny

Comment 6 Nicolas Vigier 2011-07-07 13:20:04 CEST

I think we could use rsnapshot for backups. It is quite simple, uses rsync to copy changed files from the servers, and hardlinks to keep daily/weekly versions of the backups without using too much space.

Comment 7 Nicolas Vigier 2011-07-07 13:57:03 CEST

rsnapshot also has support for scripts to backup a database.

Comment 8 Marja Van Waes 2011-10-09 20:51:37 CEST

any news on this issue?

CC: (none) => marja11

Comment 9 Marja Van Waes 2012-01-13 21:56:38 CET

Pinging. because nothing happened to this report since more than 3 months ago, and it still has the status NEW or REOPENED.

Please set status to ASSIGNED, so I won't show up again when looking for stale new and reopened bugs

Nicolas Vigier 2012-01-13 23:04:30 CET

Status: NEW => ASSIGNED

Comment 10 Morgan Leijström 2022-05-01 02:24:53 CEST

I hope there are working and documented backup procedures by now?

If so, please close as fixed.

CC: (none) => fri