CMS backup over Lan 1

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Hi

I have the doc about this but looking for a quick soundbite as to what's required before I delve into the doc.

If anyone can answer these with a quick 1 line that would be great.

1. How easy is it, assumming unix skills required?

2. Can the back up be scheduled. daily, weekly and monthly?

Throw any other useful bits I might need to know about at me.

CMS R16

Cheers

 

[fataldata]

Q1. Easy
Q2. Yes

How's that for one line.

My NFS Backup Notes:

I used a Linux CentOS server for my backups. On that box I first.

NFS Server Configuration
This was configured on the remote device to be used as the NFS server to share a directory with the CMS machine for backing up configuration files.
	1. Edited /etc/export and added
	#CMS NFS file system for backup
	/var/CMSBackups xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx(rw,sync)
	2. Started portmap on Server
	/sbin/service portmap start
	Starting portmap:                                          [  OK  ]
	3. Started NFS
	/sbin/service nfs start

Directory maintenance on the NFS server
Created a cron job to clean the directory of incremental files older than 3 days.
Added root to /etc/cron.d/cron.allow
crontab -e

0 6 * * 1 find /var/CMSBackups/CMS-* -mtime +3 -exec rm {} \;

Translates to being executed every Monday at 6am.

CMS NFS Client Configuration

The CMS uses automount configuration to mount the file share when needed and disconnect the connection when not in use.

1. Created /nfs directory
2. Enabled autofs  svcadm enable svc:/system/filesystem/autofs
3. Edited /etc/auto_master to add "/nfs            auto_nfs        -nosuid" to the end of the file.
4. Created /etc/auto_nfs with line telling it to create the directory backup under /nfs
	#NFS automounts
	backup  -rw,vers=3      10.0.10.32:/var/CMSBackups

References:

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23824_01/html/821-1454/rfsadmin-61.html#rfsadmin-67

http://nfs.sourceforge.net/

http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Deployment_Guide-en-US/s1-nfs-start.html

 

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