[oclug] Dumb questions about backups

[Vic Gedris]

On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Phil Labonte wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I have a question about backups.  I work as a sys admin for a small startup
> (90 employees). About 50 employees are software dev.  Most of them use Linux
> as their dev platform.    I want to setup a Linux backup server so that I
> can get the developpers to save their daily work onto the server that gets a
> backup every night.  Right now only the CVS repositoy gets a backup every
> day.  I am getting resistance from the developpers about installing an NFS
> server because they all worked for a larger company and remember how often
> the nfs server went down at their previous job.  What  I would like to get
> is a Linux server that has raid hardware so that the down time will be non
> existent hopefully.  I just wanted to see what anyone else out there is
> using in this type of situation or if anyone has any suggestions?
>
> Another suggestion is to have the developpers save their work in their local
> home directory and have a cron job that copies all their files to the
> nfsserver every night....

Phil,

If every developer has a home directory on the backup server (or
possibly same as CVS server), it would be really simple to have everyone
do backups using rsync.  Then backups can be done manually or with cron
with a pretty simple command.

The man page for rsync even gives examples.  I'd probably recommend
doing it over ssh.

Cheers,
Vic

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