I'm trying to setup a backup script on Ubuntu. Every day I want to copy my local source directory to a backup directory on a remote server uniquely named with the date. (e.g., backup-jan1/, backup-jan2/, etc) It should store a mirror of the earliest state and use difference files to recreate the new backup points.
This is pretty simple with rsync.
I have a few Ubuntu (and potentially RHEL) servers I'd like to back up to a central backup server (via rsh/SSH). I'd like to do both snapshot and incremental backups.
Hello all. I'm a relative *nix noob, but to save money at work I decided to put in an Ubuntu server as a fileserver so that we could use it as a web server as well. Things have been going all right, except for that I discovered this weird issue today:
I run rsync nightly to a remote server.
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I look at ls -ltr /backup/cpbackup/monthly and I see those backups are three months old, two months old and the like across all of my Cpanel servers.
I renamed monthly to monthly.0 and then created an empty monthly hoping that would flush something wrong with the backup system.
Ran backups this morning, but the logs say...
I wanted to avoid using SSH root login to backup my remote server. Thus I set up a non-root user account on the server and place it under the root group thinking that it would possess the same privilege as a root user. But I soon realize that it cannot read files that are not grouped as root and files without the read permission for the group root.
I've got a bit of an issue and need some professional advice. One of our servers ended up crashing and I have a backup of the said server (Windows Server 2008 R2). The backup routinely backed up the OS onto an external HDD that sat on a separate server.
I am backing up a networked server via SSH. Unfortunately, I can't seem to figure out how to get root access to the networked server with Rsync. I am using the following command to perform the backup:
sudo rsync -av ubuntu@*******:/ /media/backup1/ubuntubackup
Some directories come up as permission denied.
Here's the skinny: I have a Linode VPS that I want to backup to my local laptop via rsync. I have just generated ssh keys for the communication and left a blank passphrase for the private key so I can rsync via cron without worrying about passwords.
For extra security I also denied root ssh logins.
I have some servers and VPSs to many companies across the world. I want to back them up locally. I have some backup solutions enabled to remote hosts, but I want to have a local backup on a computer at home.
What I am thinking is:
Create a virtualbox virtual machine, install the same version linux as the server.
Use rsync to backup the server to the local virtualbox machine.
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