billmakr
OK here goes a mini HOWTO.
It's all been said before so if you search on backup2ws or backup you can read it.
> ..Is this a commercial product or is it the use of winrar in this contrib that requires purchase?
The backup2ws conrib is GPL but it usese RAR for Linux and that is the part that requires a licence.
WinRAR is not used by backup2ws but is provided as a tool that you can use to open and view your backup files created by backup2ws. It requires a licence too.
Mind you Linux RAR or WinRAR do work OK without licencing eg for test purposes.
HOWTO
Just download all the required packages (from dmay contrib area) to an empty folder on your sme server
cd to that foder
and do
rpm -Uvh *.rpm
After install is complete run server manager and you will have a new panel.
DON'T create a backup job that includes all filesystems on your sme server, that is a wrong thing to do. You will create an endless loop backup file that just gets bigger and bigger.
Enable the Disaster Recovery backup job 911 and I suggest you schedule that for a daily backup.
You can also run additional selective backup jobs which will back up limited data sets eg one or two ibays only as required.
Note that only the 911 Disaster Recovery Backup includes a dump of the mysql databases, whereas other manually configured backup jobs do not include the mysql dump. You have been warned.
The 911 job backs up everything required to rebuild your server on a fresh install of sme after a restore.
Another point to note is to specify a split size of 2Gb or less for your backup files to avoid problems during restores. There is a tar/smb/browser issue if the backup file is larger than 2Gb. You can create a larger backup file but you won't be able to restore from it. The split file is treated by rar as one big contiguous file, so it all works OK.
Depnding what your final backup destination is eg Hard disk only or CD or DVD, you may also specifiy a lesser size eg 750Mb or 1.5Gb (to conveniently fill up a CD with one part, or a DVD with 3 parts, of the backup file). I think DVD's have a 2Gb file size limit also.
Read the configuration screens carefully and it should all make sense. if not post your problem/questions back here.
Do a manual test backup of say /root to your workstation share to check if backup2ws has been configured correctly & is running OK, that should only take 1 minute, and then look at the file using WinRAR.
Have fun !
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