Pleskrestore & pleskbackup

Nothing · Unread post by **Nothing** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 7:16 pm

I've read this page : http://www.atomicorp.com/wiki/index.php/Pleskrestore

So I have a little question : how should we backup with pleskbackup ?
/psainstalldir/pleskbackup all
should be fine to choose what to restore later ?

Unread post by **scott** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 10:17 am

dunno, I use rdiff-backup myself. If anyone wants to write the procedure for it, check out the wiki.

Nothing · Unread post by **Nothing** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 12:39 pm

scott wrote:dunno, I use rdiff-backup myself. If anyone wants to write the procedure for it, check out the wiki.

OK.

I've created two pages on the wiki :
http://www.atomicorp.com/wiki/index.php ... t_on_forum
and :
http://www.atomicorp.com/wiki/index.php/Ftp_backup

I just abording "how to send data to another server", but I have some thinks to add to this doc (maybe rdiff-backup ? and another command for lftp != mirror -R).

I can't create a doc for "how to restore from pleskbackup all" because I can't test that on my production server

Check it out, and if my english is too bad, correct it !

Nothing · Unread post by **Nothing** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 4:24 pm

scott wrote:dunno, I use rdiff-backup myself. If anyone wants to write the procedure for it, check out the wiki.

I come back on this topic.

I know that rdiff can synchronise files and directory between two servers.

But how you do that with plesk ? how backup plesk data (directory, installation and serial) ?

How backup SQL databases or mails ? (wich are changing every hours?)

If any one have a tips ...

Unread post by **scott** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 7:10 pm

Theres more than one way to do it, depending on your resources and the kind of system you're trying to make. The top of the scale would be a real-time HA (high availability) configuration, which requires design changes for that environment. SAN's, dedicated networks, etc.

The other end of the spectrum are backups to outside storage (whatever that might be), using things like psadump, or rdiff-backup.

The first question to resolve is what is the maximum acceptable amount of time for to restore operations in the event of a catastrophic failure.

Nothing · Unread post by **Nothing** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 4:43 am

scott wrote:The first question to resolve is what is the maximum acceptable amount of time for to restore operations in the event of a catastrophic failure.

The second question is money

Creating a HA system requires 2 servers, a switch and some space in a datacenter ...

Thanks for your help.

Unread post by **scott** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 7:20 am

HA requires a lot more than two

http://www.atomicorp.com/wiki/index.php/HA

Highland · Unread post by **Highland** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 9:44 am

I dunno about email backups but I do know you can automate a mysqldump and save that onto an external server the same way you did pleskbackup. I have a mission critical DB that gets backed up every 3 hours separate from the main plesk backup.

Nothing · Unread post by **Nothing** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 2:43 pm

Highland wrote:I dunno about email backups but I do know you can automate a mysqldump and save that onto an external server the same way you did pleskbackup. I have a mission critical DB that gets backed up every 3 hours separate from the main plesk backup.

If you're using a script for your sql backup, can you add it to the wiki ?

http://www.atomicorp.com/wiki/

Thanks