After cheking the backups I found that some didn’t get done properly(eg. WWW-1)
but in HP-1 everything was OK.
The old backups previously done via duplicity will be available still for a few months and then will be deleted.
These old backups are in ‘bkdirx_duplicity’ directories.
Finally I decided to change the program used to do the long term system backups.
I changed the program from duplicity to diff-backup.
Installed it on all servers with apt-get
Replaced the commands in the script to.
No changes were needed in the individual backup script parameters files.
nice -n 19 rdiff-backup --print-statistics --terminal-verbosity 5 --remove-older-than 3M --force $Remote_subdir/$destdir 2>&1 | tee -a $ERROR_log >> $logfile
nice -n 19 rdiff-backup --print-statistics --terminal-verbosity 5 --include-special-files $remote_exclude_dirs / $Remote_subdir/$destdir 2>&1 | tee -a $ERROR_log >> $logfile
– Tested the new script change in FLASH-1 and worked very well.
– The old script is saved as: FLASH-1:/root/bin/daily_sysbackup_02.11.2009
The script saves a mirror in the destination directory and an incremental backup in the subdirectory:
bkdirx/rdiff-backup-data
which is valid till 3 months behind.
– The documentation on rdiff-backup found here
– The extra backup program that could be used to complete this backup system is called: SafeKeep Here
– More backups programs available Here