Make backups

I have a full backup of all important files. Finally.

Later, the drive that I am backing up to will be RAID’ed. Then life will be super cool.

I’ve also gone from weekly backups to nightly backups instead.

I still haven’t gotten a full backup yet from the server. Between life interruptions and connection interruptions, the initial ‘seed’ backup is taking awhile.

I think that I will move the rsync from being a weekly thing, to 2 or 3 times a week.

Splitting the DB’s was a good idea. I just did a test, and the—ignore-times switch is exactly what I needed.

I have just re-launched the rsync. Once I have confirmed the backups have worked, I can mark this off of my list. WHUTE!

The backups worked fine. At 7 AM this morning, everything was properly dumped, and later on, my other machine performed the rsync happily.

Until the power went out.

(crap!)

This isn’t too bad. Before I go out tonight I’ll get the backup going again. The plus side is that I realized I was handling the mysql backup really badly. This time I will

1. Dump the databases on a database by database basis. (extra bonus is that I cleaned out all the crufty DB’s).
2. Ignore the times on the dump files when I rsync so that it is only backing up DB’s that have changed.

I finally have everything automagickally backing up. Hopefully. Before I mark this goal as complete I need to do 2 things:

1. Make sure that on Sunday when my cron job, and scheduled tasks both run, that everything worked fine
2. make sure all of the websites under /var/www are backed up.

I just set up the rsync server and client. Next up I am going to rsync a few of the more important directories, and we will see what happens.

I bookmarked a quick rsync for windows tutorial. I am not sure of rsync is going to be my backup-solution, but we’ll see where it takes me.