Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC to NFS then to tape via DPM

The Systems Admin told me they are setting up a 5TB NFS share for me to use.
Any gotcha's anyone can think of before I go ahead with configuration? There's nothing like diving right into the deep end.

They will be having me back up more Linux systems after I successfully take care of the big sore point they have currently.
Which is (current plan) to back up the database backups, four backups on a client machine dated from most recent to oldest copies currently about 36GB each.
So (though I haven't seen it) I am thinking there will be four backup directories which will be a lot like each other with minor differences.
I've been asked if there's a way to just get things that are newer than NN hours only, which I don't know - I said I'd get back to them on that.

So the current thinking is that the databases are backed up using whatever our vendor uses to do backups, this is their responsibility according to their SLA.
In order to provide disaster recovery (partially our responsibility) we will move those resulting database backup files to our NFS share via BackupPC and then backup that NFS to our DPM tape repository which gets sent out to Iron Mountain weekly.
The restore process for disaster recovery purposes should be that of letting the vendor rebuild the system according to their SLA, then we will supply the database backup file set they request and they will perform the database restore.

After we demonstrate success with this then we will identify other clients and add more to our backups, but first things first.

ANY advice to this BackupPC noob is appreciated, I am learning things as I read everyone's messages.

Rick Bastedo

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 9:14 AM, Rick Bastedo <rbastedo AT gmail DOT com> wrote:

"I'm still curious about how you plan to get it to your DPM."

As am I.

I'm taking a 'one step at a time' approach here.
My network admin hasn't given me the storage share address yet nor do I have permission on the system that is to be backed up.
I've got BackupPC installed, and am waiting until I get the information I need from him before I do configuration.
Meanwhile I suppose getting the rest of the system ready would be a good idea at this point.

Rick Bastedo

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com> wrote:

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Rick Bastedo <rbastedo AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> Actually I read about enabling the "optional" RHEL repo while researching
> this problem so I had done that as well.
> Manually installing things made it so the system only had to get that last
> dependency and then it went ahead and installed BackupPC.
> Reading the docs, it's the final frontier...
>
> Now the real fun starts, getting BackupPC configured and working.
> Sometimes I wonder how I get myself into these things.

From the RPM install it should just come up working with the the usual
'service' and 'chkconfig' operations to activate it, although iptables
and/or SELinux might prevent access. See the comment in
/etc/httpd/conf.d/BackupPC.conf about adding a web user password. It
should be easy enough to get your data into backuppc at that point.
I'm still curious about how you plan to get it to your DPM.

--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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