Help With Restoring

[Dr. Poo]

I'm very interested in this...

My question(s) are why did you have to install a minimal system?
Could you have just booted up with network and rsync and just rsynced to a 
freshly paritioned/formatted disk?

What command did you use (to clarify) to make the origal rsync's of your 
disk, and what were the steps neccessary and the command you used (to 
clarify) to make the restore? (I guess that includes the install of a base 
system.. did you use the same system, say redhat 7.2?)

I'm curious because i have a full rsync of a production server on my 
development box, and i put it in Lilo to boot up with, disconnected the 
network (so know conflicts occur, would any?) and tried to boot, but it 
failed... (i don't have access right now to the error message).

The production box is i686 and so is the development box... Not the same 
processor though.... would that make a difference?

Do you think if i just tried to install a minimal system to a partion and 
copied the / tree it would work??

	Thanks a bundle! Great job on the success!! And Good luck for the future!

		-Chris

On Thursday 09 January 2003 01:58 pm, mhanze at hanzehome.com wrote:
> 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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