Is there an easy way of making a server backup from one server, and storing it on an other one? I have two servers in a datacenter. Both servers have two NIC's and they have different WAN (internet) IP's. They also have a LAN IP on the NIC that is not used for the WAN (10.0.0.1 and 10.0.0.2), and I can ping both servers from each other (10.0.0.1 is seeing 10.0.0.2 and 10.0.0.2 is seeing 10.0.0.1) Now I have had a look at falko's "Creating Images Of Your Linux System With SystemImager" howto, but as he is talking about "Create A Boot Diskette" at step 4, I'm not sure if this is what I want. (the servers do not even have an IDE floppy drive) Anyone here who might know what kind of program can do this over a LAN? (something like Ghost for Windows I guess) All I really need to backup are the websites, MySQL, DNS settgins and emails/settings, but making an ISO of the system would also be nice, and maybe simpler!?
Well i tried sth. like setting up a "cold standby" when I was using vhcs. What I did was just copying the www stuff, mailstuff, CP-Date, as well as the DB Files (no export, stopp db and copy the real files), passwd + shadow diff, as well as postfix stuff and network things. That was the more easy part. The bigger thing was to change the IP-Address and make the CP recreate their configs with that new IP-Address. I started this with having to identically installed and configured base systems.
If you just want to backup data and NOT make a system image then you could use rsync for it and create incremental snapshot-like backups. I have written a small howto on that...
Have a look here: http://www.howtoforge.com/dedicated_server_backup_restore_systemimager It tells you how you can restore a SystemImager image without having physical access to your machine (therefore no diskettes are needed).
falko, I had a look at that, but my servers do not have the "Booting Your System Into the Rescue System" and "login to your hosting companies control panel" :-/
Maybe you can help.. Problem is that I do not have ssh running on the normal port. (It’s on port: 666 for me).. So Code: rsync -avz -e ssh [email protected][/email]:/var/www/ /var/www/ (from falko's "Mirror Your Web Site With rsync" howto) does not work.. (in my case) Code: rsync –avz –e ssh [email protected]:/var/www/ /var/www/ When I make a SSH connection from box1 (10.0.0.1) to box2 (10.0.0.2) I do it like this: ssh -p 666 -l username 10.0.0.2. It's the same from box2 to box1 (using the 10.0.0.1 IP) Now I've tested the rsync with the -e ssh and the -p 666 option, but this does not work! As you did a howto on it, I'm kind of hoping that you know how to get it going with a non standard SSH port.
Found it Code: rsync –avz –e 'ssh -p 666' [email protected]:/var/www/ /var/www/ Note the ' in front of ssh and behind the 666 Code: rsync -avz -e 'ssh -p 666' [email protected]:/test/ /test/ Password: receiving file list ... done test1.txt test1.html sent 64 bytes received 1326 bytes 556.00 bytes/sec total size is 2196 speedup is 1.58 host:/test#
