I use a little custom script with Mindi (part of the Mondo package) and Rsync. I have a couple of USB drives that I rotate for this. The drive has a FAT partition (FAT so that I can just plug my backup drive into a Windows box to burn the ISO) for the Mindi ISO file and an EXT3 partition for filesystem files. The Mindi ISO gives you a bootable CD with any special hardware drivers you might need for your hardware - although I have usually just used a generic Live Distro to do restores. Restore is a very manual process - I keep notes of the partition/filesystem layout - Boot to the new hardware, create the partitions and filesystems needed, Rsync files back onto the drive, re-install the bootloader and you are back online. In the example I'm attaching, I have Zimbra running, so I stop Zimbra while the backup of those files runs - any databases I just stop them while backup runs (none of my servers require 24/7 availability of services) - you could easily implement a mysqldump into this, or whatever you needed for a hot BU of databases, I've tested this process restoring a server to different hardware (I try and stick with commodity hardware as nothing I need to do requires anything more and then I don't have to deal with driver issues) in about 30 minutes.
Attaching the scripts, but not sure if they will make it through, so email me directly if you need them. Dave Redmore Spigot Networks, Inc. ----- Original Message ----- From: m...@grounded.net To: "sipx-users" <sipx-users@list.sipfoundry.org> Sent: Sunday, August 29, 2010 12:38:01 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central Subject: Re: [sipx-users] Anyone using mondoarchive? > You could use sfdisk to dump the partition table to a file, and then > just rsync the / file system to the nfs store excluding /dev/, /proc, I wasn't aware of this method and will have to look more into it. > Also you probably need to dump > the database occasionally and make sure it's consistent. But pgdump > could do that. But you may get lucky on just having the rsync copy of > the db being consistent(depends on how much you like to gamble...) Do you mean a backup database or sipx? Ultimately, I am trying to make sure that I always have a quick, up to date restore method if something goes wrong. I'm just looking for something relatively simple, that won't take a ton of time to learn or figure out. Mondo is dirt easy, clonezilla wasn't terrible but a bit more than I wanted to get into. _______________________________________________ sipx-users mailing list sipx-users@list.sipfoundry.org List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-users/
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