lucho115
The default backup panel in sme7 does a backup to tape or a backup to desktop. Both of these backup everything needed to be able to recreate the server on a freshly installed OS (& include a dump of the mysql db's & all other data & config). You will need to reinstall any add on contribs after the restore has been performed.
The problem with the desktop backup job, is that it hits the 4Gb limit and does not backup everything if you have a lot of data on your server. There is also a problem with restoring, if the backup file is larger than 2Gb, then restores will not work properly. So the practical desktop backup file size limit is 2Gb. Most systems these days will exceed that, therefore the backup/restore to desktop is inadequate & the developers are aware of this but there is no easy GPL solution.
The backup2 contrib works around this limitation and splits the backup file into parts, and you should specify the size to be 2Gb or less, I size mine at 1.5Gb to fit 3 parts on a DVD. You can theoretically backup any amount of data limited only by the media size you are backing up to eg workstation removable hard drive or USB drive.
The 911 disaster recovery job backs up everything needed to rebuild the server on freshly installed OS including db's data & config, but you will also need to reinstall add on contribs.
You can create other backup jobs to selectively backup data etc, but remember all the backup jobs except the 911 job DO NOT backup the mysql db's.
So that's why I suggested you do a 911 job with unwanted ibays etc excluded (there is provision to exclude ibays or whatever), as this will backup the config & mysql db's & users.
Then create other jobs which only backup selected ibays etc as required.
I suggest you just install the backup2 contrib and you will see how it all works from the server manager panel, it's self explanatory.
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