Backups of Files on Bigbro, Bigsis and Remote

GEST - November 22, 2002.

Intro -  We want to make sure we're safe against the failure of any one unit.  Here are the approaches we've taken on each machine.

BIGSIS -  Use the built-in file utilities to back up \\BIGSIS\People and \\BIGSIS\Webpages and \\BIGSIS\Literature.
  Back up to Z:, an 80 Gig IDE internal, once a week by hand at same time as virus scan.

BIGBRO -  Multiple strategies.

	1.  Set of scripts in /usr/local/sbin that make hourly, daily, weekly and monthly backups of /home and /etc and spools to /hdb1.
	2.  Script that copies /home and /var/spool/mail to BIGSIS -->  /usr/local/sbin/mail_backup
			Must be run by hand.
			Files saved at \\Bigsis\Admin\Bigbro_Backup

REMOTE -  Script that copies /home to \\Bigsis\Admin\Remote_Backup once a week.
	    Script located in  /usr/local/sbin/

Details -

On BIGSIS --
 2 special accounts for backing up.
	user 	= 	remote;	password = bilayer
	user	=	toombes;	password = bilayer
 2 shares as,
	\\BIGSIS\Admin\Remote_Backup --> Remote_Backup
	\\BIGSIS\Admin\Bigbro_Backup --> Bigbro_Backup

On REMOTE --
Adjust /etc/auto.misc on remote to give access to BIGSIS.
	backup          -fstype=smbfs,username=rmote,password=bilayer,ip=128.253.36.40    ://bigsis/Remote_Backup

Made a short rsync script on remote in,
	/usr/local/sbin/home_backup
Add link to it in /etc/cron.weekly
		lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           27 2002-11-24 12:38 home_backup -> /usr/local/sbin/home_backup

On BIGBRO - 
editted /etc/auto.misc to add,
backup            -fstype=smbfs,username=bigbro,password=bilayer,rw,ip=128.253.36.40       ://bigsis/Bigbro_Backup

Made a file /usr/local/sbin/mail_backup
Run by hand.