[Dirvish] Backing several servers to one dedicated backup server with Dirvish

[Paul Slootman]

On Thu 07 Feb 2008, Jarkko Ypäjä wrote:

> The the dedicated backup server I will insert a bank(to the master.conf) for all the servers that need to backupped such as:
> 
> master.conf
> 
> bank
>     /server1
>     /server2

You can define just one bank, and put the servers below that.
(you need a : after bank!)
I use:

bank:
    /data

and then have /data/server1/etc, /data/server1/home, etc
and /data/server2/etc, /data/server2/var-www, etc

You also need an entry for each if you want to use dirvish-runall:

Runall:
    server1/etc                 22:00
    server1/home                22:00
    server2/etc                 22:00
    server2/var-www             22:00
    ...

dirvish-runall will then execute dirvish for each of these.


> After this I will create an own default.conf to under every folder /serverx/root/dirvish and put to the client section the servers ip(or hostname? which one?)

IP or hostname doesn't matter, so long as the name resolves and "ssh IP"
or "ssh hostname" works.

> After this I will create the necessary keys so that the SSH connection does not need to use passwords according to this howto: http://edseek.com/~jasonb/articles/dirvish_backup/transport.html#transportssh

You can also have rsync running as a daemon on the systems, then you
don't use ssh.  You will have to define the tree as :modulename in that
case.



Paul Slootman