Backups:Linux

How to Set Up Backups

Create the Backup Set

• Follow the steps to Create a Backup Set

Linux

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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.