Proving My Backups.

Discussion in 'Testing One Another's Backups' started by Dan Allen, Sep 22, 2015.

  1. Dan Allen

    Dan Allen Administrator Founder Not Banned Radio Button Problem - Leader

    --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.
    1. Macbook Pro Laptop
    2. Windows 8 Lapton
    3. My Servers:
      1. boss001
      2. boss001a
    4. Servers I Run With Holly's Stuff (she would lose it if we lost the server and the backup failed.)
      1. HLOWS001
        1. ht-ts.info
        2. solar-dev.work
        3. solar-pbeta.work
        4. hlows-beta.work
        5. hlows-dev (not used)
      2. HLOWS002 (not sure what to do on this one.)
      3. hlowsbackup
    More to follow...
     
  2. Kirsten Bolda

    Kirsten Bolda Administrator Radio Button Problem - 2nd Demo Parts A and B Founder Not Banned

    This is cool. Thank you for letting us watch!:cool::)
     
  3. Dan Allen

    Dan Allen Administrator Founder Not Banned Radio Button Problem - Leader

    Status of backups
    1. Macbook Pro Laptop (time machine, backups every hour. Test of restore pending)
    2. 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.)
    3. My Servers:
      1. boss001 backed up by DO, but I need more frequent backups
        1. devserver-002.info
        2. devserver-017.info
        3. danallen.com (currently in transit to a different server)
        4. houston-data.com
        5. houstonwebsites.org (nothing there)
        6. legacy-systems.biz (21C)
        7. launchpad-001.com
        8. route66mc.com
      2. boss001a backed up by DO, but I need more frequent backups
        1. devserver-001.info
          1. danSdev (my development directories)
        2. archived but not online
          1. joshquinones.com
          2. firingRangeB
          3. fonts
          4. foodTrucks
          5. prototype04b
          6. twitterRead
      3. danallen.com backed up by DO, but I need more frequent backups
    4. Servers I Run With Holly's Stuff (she would lose it if we lost the server and the backup failed.)
      1. HLOWS001 backup daily to hlowsbackup. backup includes snapshot. Need to verify snapshots.
        1. ht-ts.info included in hlows001
        2. solar-dev.work included in hlows001
        3. solar-pbeta.work included in hlows001
        4. hlows-beta.work included in hlows001
        5. hlows-dev (not used) included in hlows001
      2. HLOWS002 (not sure what to do on this one.) Under review
      3. hlowsbackup
     
  4. Dan Allen

    Dan Allen Administrator Founder Not Banned Radio Button Problem - Leader

    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.

    upload_2015-9-23_16-51-19.png
     
  5. Dan Allen

    Dan Allen Administrator Founder Not Banned Radio Button Problem - Leader

    This is the new backup scheme for the development server I use for Holly.
    upload_2015-10-18_1-49-33.png

    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

    upload_2015-10-18_2-8-25.png

    upload_2015-10-18_2-8-38.png

    upload_2015-10-18_2-8-51.png
    upload_2015-10-18_2-9-5.png


    upload_2015-10-18_2-9-20.png



    upload_2015-10-18_2-9-38.png


    Other than the directory holding all these directories, the directories are all made automatically by the mv and cp -al commands.
     
  6. Dan Allen

    Dan Allen Administrator Founder Not Banned Radio Button Problem - Leader

    Next thing to back up better: databases
     
  7. Dan Allen

    Dan Allen Administrator Founder Not Banned Radio Button Problem - Leader

  8. Dan Allen

    Dan Allen Administrator Founder Not Banned Radio Button Problem - Leader

    Last edited: Oct 24, 2015

Share This Page