Help With Restoring

[jw schultz]

Using rsync on to restore / might be OK because it creates
copies and then renames but in general it is a bad idea to
try to restore / in-place.

Better to boot from other media, mount root &c on another tree
and then restore there.

On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 11:20:09PM -0500, mhanze at hanzehome.com wrote:
> > > rsync --delete --stats --compress --recursive --times --perms --links 
> > > --rsh=/usr/bin/ssh --exclude "tmp/" --exclude "dev/" --exclude "proc/" 
> 
> > > --exclude "backups/ " --delete-excluded --backup 
> > > --backup-dir=/backup2/BACKED_UP_SERVER_FQDN/$DAY -a /* 
> > > CENTRAL_SERVER_IP:/backup2/BACKED_UP_SERVER_FQDN/current && echo 
> "Daily 
> > > backup ran on `date`" >> /var/log/backup.log 
> > 
> > Notice that if you have any dotfiles in / (that is, flies that begin 
> with
> > a "."), this will not copy them, but normally you wouldn't have dotfiles
> > in / so it shouldn't matter.  Might want to start using / instead of /*
> > from now on though, just for good form.
> 
> 
> Thanks fot the tip :)
> 
> 
> > 
> > > This has been working fine and I've even been able to restore files 
> using 
> > > scp from time to time. now I'm faced with a bare metal recovery cause 
> of a 
> > > botched upgrade from Redhat 7.1 to 8.0 that failed half way through. 
> This 
> > > machine was still accessible via console and ssh (putty). I signed in 
> via 
> > > ssh and ran... 
> > > 
> > > # cd / 
> > > # scp -r CENTRAL_SERVER_IP:/backup1/BACKED_UP_SERVER_FQDN/current/.* . 
> 
> > > 
> > > This was running for a while and then i lost my connection and cant 
> > > reconnect. I won't have console access till the morning but any advice 
> 
> > > would be greatly appreciated.
> > 
> > Don't you mean:
> > 
> > scp -rp CENTRAL_SERVER_IP:/backup1/BACKED_UP_SERVER_FQDN/current/. .
> > 
> > ?
> > 
> > The command you list above won't copy anything, since there are no
> > dotfiles in the root directory.  Also, you have backup2 in the rsync
> > command and backup1 in the scp command.
> > 
> > Maybe that was just a typo though...
> 
> 
> As never having restored anything more that a few files at a time as the 
> Linux newbie that I am,  I'm sure i was off. Thanks for the tip again :)
> Typo it was. Should have been backup2 in the scp command.
> 
> 
> > 
> > One final thought.  Sometimes scp has issues with symlinks (as in, 
> copying
> > the target instead of the link).  Might want to use:
> > 
> > cd /
> > rsync -av CENTRAL_SERVER_IP:/backup1/BACKED_UP_SERVER_FQDN/current/ .
> 
> 
> I will try this first thing in the morning when I have console access. 
> 
> Just one more thing; Based on the script I use, am I SOL or with a little 
> elbow greese in the morning get my server back?
> 
> 
> Thank you for your time and advice. I really appreciate it!!!!!
> 
> Mark
> 
> > 
> > Mike
> > 
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