Topic: Backing up and restoring remotely using BackupPC

[Alex Schaft]

We've got a second sme server set up to back up our main one using BackupPC.

I've configured it to call signal-event pre-backup on the machine being backed up, and pre-restore prior to restoring and a reboot after.

I grabbed a list of what to backup from one of the restore scripts.

Is this all that's needed, or is there another event to signal?

[byte]

Moving this topic to the SME 7.x contribs forum, it is more appropriate there. Thanks!

[David Harper]

Have you considered Affa? It's designed for exactly this scenario.

[Alex Schaft]

The server running BackupPC backs up all our workstations plus some other servers too.

I've tried affa to keep a running copy of the main server, but it needs to much disk space for subsequent backups

[David Harper]

In that case, what I would do to answer your original question is to take a spare box and run a test restore. From your description, you should be okay so long as you are sure that the MySQL database is being backed up, but I would run a test to be sure.