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:
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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 )
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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.
Mail from misc in november : http://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-sysadm/2010-November/000535.html
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
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(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!
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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.
rsnapshot also has support for scripts to backup a database.
any news on this issue?
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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
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I hope there are working and documented backup procedures by now? If so, please close as fixed.
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