From: John Ronan (jronan at domain tssg.org)
Date: Fri 24 Aug 2001 - 12:10:56 IST
>> I think it's something that *every* sysadmin should be programmed to do
>> (randomly) once in a root shell. The idea behind this is that, at some
>> stage in your career, you'll do it so let's get it over with early and then
>> you can forget about it.
Hear Hear,
Actually I did it once on a "soon-to-be-reinstalled" machine to see what would
happen. Machine and all daemons stayed running.. then I got bored, rebooted
and re-installed.
>
> On that topic - how many people actually keep historical copies of backups ?
> Is everyone just rolling over tapes, or do people run a
> grandfather/father/son
> pattern with the occasional 'grandfather' tape being put into a 'keep
> forever'
> stack. (just curious)
Hmmm,
For some reason (there must be a reason), I've adopted the following procedure.
Monthly -> Keep for 12 Months Pile
Then two Weekly tapes which get rotated each week, every once in a while I make
the weekly into a monthly and bring in a new weekly.
Weekly backup on Monday morning, grabs everything changed since last monthly,
tape gets spit out. New tape then for the rest of the week.
Ecrix VXA-1, Tape drive, and an embarrassingly primitive shell script.
It has to be said, I've been able to go back to a 12 month old tape and do a
restore (assuming of course I had actually backed up the data in the first
place.. but that's another story), it's never failed.
John
-- John Ronan <jronan at domain tssg.org>, +353-51-302411 Telecommunications Software Systems Group - WIT, http://www.tssg.org
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