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Latest revision as of 08:47, 1 March 2017
How to Set Up Backups
Create the Backup Set
- Follow the steps to Create a Backup Set
Linux
Set up the rsync client
- Download the client: Media:csbackups-linux.tar.gz
- Untar the client to /root (it should create a directory called /root/csbackups)
Configure the rsync client
- Open the dobackup.sh file in a text editor.
- Set the following fields based on the backup set created in step 1: UserID, RsyncServer, BackupName
- Edit secret file and set your backup password there.
- Check your includes.txt and excludes.txt to make sure they include and exclude what you want to backup.
Setting the backup to run automatically
- Create a cron entry for the root user using the command "crontab -e"
- Create the following entry: X Y * * * /root/csbackups/doBackup.sh > /dev/null 2>&1
- Change X to be any number between [0 - 59] This will be the minute that the backup runs
- Change Y to be any number between [0 - 23] This will be the hour that the backup runs
- Having a random X and Y insures that backups do not run at the same time for every machine.
Setting the backup to run on demand
- To run the backup on demand simply run /root/csbackups/doBackup.sh as root
Known Issues
- Make sure you run the backup script as root. Running it as another user will probably fail.