--draft in progress -- My assignment is to test my backups by rebuilding all my systems from backup, documenting the process for you to review. Here are the computers I need to have backed with bomb proofing. Macbook Pro Laptop Windows 8 Lapton My Servers: boss001 boss001a Servers I Run With Holly's Stuff (she would lose it if we lost the server and the backup failed.) HLOWS001 ht-ts.info solar-dev.work solar-pbeta.work hlows-beta.work hlows-dev (not used) HLOWS002 (not sure what to do on this one.) hlowsbackup More to follow...
Status of backups Macbook Pro Laptop (time machine, backups every hour. Test of restore pending) Windows 8 Laptop (not backed up. Risk of loss: there is one folder containing files I cannot lose. A tech problem is blocking the backup of that folder. size of folder is 5.1G. When I try copying to thumb drive, error: path too long. I put the folder in the root of the C:/ drive, but that does not solve the problem. Next step: upload folder with ftp to a web server and back up from there.) My Servers: boss001 backed up by DO, but I need more frequent backups devserver-002.info devserver-017.info danallen.com (currently in transit to a different server) houston-data.com houstonwebsites.org (nothing there) legacy-systems.biz (21C) launchpad-001.com route66mc.com boss001a backed up by DO, but I need more frequent backups devserver-001.info danSdev (my development directories) archived but not online joshquinones.com firingRangeB fonts foodTrucks prototype04b twitterRead danallen.com backed up by DO, but I need more frequent backups Servers I Run With Holly's Stuff (she would lose it if we lost the server and the backup failed.) HLOWS001 backup daily to hlowsbackup. backup includes snapshot. Need to verify snapshots. ht-ts.info included in hlows001 solar-dev.work included in hlows001 solar-pbeta.work included in hlows001 hlows-beta.work included in hlows001 hlows-dev (not used) included in hlows001 HLOWS002 (not sure what to do on this one.) Under review hlowsbackup
Time machine of macbook. I got this going just yesterday. The external drive I am using was holding backups of this macbook from before it melted down. Yesterday, I verified that everything I needed from that backup has been restored to the current macbook, so I reformatted the external drive for Time Machine.
This is the new backup scheme for the development server I use for Holly. The extremely AWESOME thing about this, besides the fact it runs automatically, it has all these copies without any duplicate files. Duplicate files are only referenced to one actual copy of the file. It takes three scripts running as scheduled task to make this work. Here are the scripts: Hourly: So, the directory being backed up here is about 500M. That means that backup.0 is 500M. All the others are almost zero. Only the changed files are made into files, the rest are only references. It is done with flags on the cp command, cp -al Other than the directory holding all these directories, the directories are all made automatically by the mv and cp -al commands.
Videos of the new backup system. Part 1 - Intro Part 2 - Set for launch in a few minutes Part 3 - Final countdown Part 4 - Time Zone Correction Part 5 - Right After Launch, I still didn't know I had misread the clock Part 6 - Backup tree is started and these videos are in them Part 7 - Turning on the incrementals
Part 8 - Checking on the backups 12 hours later When the music finishes, the last minute or so is replayed with video.
