Help With Restoring

[mhanze at hanzehome.com]

To Mike and the Rsync community,

        This is by far the greatest utility I have ever used for backing 
up an entire system. My Redhat server got botched during an upgrade. I 
reformatted my partitions and installed a minimal system. Rsync'ed the 
entire / directory back and the server came back to life. databases, 
websites, hardware configs, everything! I'm back in business.  As a Linux 
newbie, not a luser, I really appreciate the response I received from Mike 
and others. As the days pass and my skills refine, I will offer back as 
much support as I can. I guess you can say another BillyBorg saved :)


Thanks Again!

Mark




> > > 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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