How to create data backup server using rsync ssh with time schedule

[Dwight Hubbard]

On Tuesday 04 August 2009 09:42:34 am Fabio Rampazzo Mathias wrote:
> Dear Jiten Jha,
>
> At an overall view, you'll need some steps :
>
> 1. Grant access from machines to be backed up (clients) to the server
> without password (with public key
> (http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2007/02/05/unattended-ssh-login-public-key-ssh
>-authorization-ssh-automatic-login/) )
>
> 2.  Create a backup script (bash is a good friend in this time)
>
> 3. Configure script to run via crontab (as you wish (man crontab))
>
> These are the basic stuff.
> The process i do here is :
>
> 1. (on the client) TAR+BZIP2 files (even mysqldumps) with name
> structure : dir-<directoy>-<date>.tar.bz2 or mysql-<database>-
> <date>.tar.bz2
>
> 2. (on the client) Using a simple bash script, i do rsync to specified
> folders :
>
> 	rsync -avz <backup-dir>/dir-* bkpuser at backup-machine:/data/diretorios/
> 	rsync -avz <backup-dir>/mysql-* bkpuser at backup-machine:/data/mysql/
> 	rm -rf <backupd-dir>/*
>
> 3. (on the server) Configure a check script to know if it had problem :
>
> 	if [ "`ls <backup-dir> | grep <date> | wc -l "` != "125" ];
> 	then
> 		echo "there's a backup problem" | mail <mymail> -s "Backup scheduler"
> 	fi;
>
> That's all...
>
> I have some diffs an deltas backups too, just "man rsync" to know more
> parameters of rsync.
>
> Cheers,
> Fábio Rampazzo Mathias
>
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> On 04/08/2009, at 10:22, Barry Brimer wrote:
> >> Dear friend,
BackupPC does backup to disk using rsync/tar/smb, it also handles, scheduling, 
does file deduplication to decrease storage requirements and has a web 
interface. 

http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/

> >> I want to create data backup server using  "rsync ssh utility "
> >> with time schedule
> >> then i can take backup all data from any system of my office. Then
> >> tell me the way how i can configure it.
> >
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