Chapter 10 Archives and Backups

Example Backup System

Why Backup? Types of failures Power failures (software/hardware failure) Natural disasters (fire, flood) Security incidents (theft) Hardware Failures (disk crash) User error (rm -rf) Social issues (stolen data)

Backup Best Practices Centralized backup location Label makers Label everything! Backup intervals User accounts (daily) Software development – Repositories (e.g. SVN) At a minimum weekly Make daily dumps fit on one piece of media Keep media off-site Protect your backups Verify your media

A common backup strategy “Do nothing” It is the most widely used backup strategy. No initial costs. No backup schedule to follow If you lose all your data – “Too bad so sad” “Do nothing’” is the correct backup method for /usr/obj, /usr/src and other directory trees that can be exactly recreated by your system – but if in doubt, BACK IT UP!

Best Practices cont’ Backup data to fit on one piece of media (realistic ?) Keep backups off site? (typical for larger corporations / sensitive media) Protect backups Physical security Verify backup media Generate catalog of backed up media Remember the lifespan of recordable media (e.g. tapes) Worst case mitigation

Backup Media Optical CD-R,DVD-R,Blu-Ray Max capacity 50GB (BD-R DL) Interface SATA USB(2.0, 3.0)

Backup Media cont’ Removable Hard Drives Interface USB Firewire Thunderbolt Ideal for personal use/small systems

Backup Media cont’ Small Tape drives DAT – digital audio tape DDS – digital data storage 160GB

Backup Media cont’ DLT/S-DLT digital linear tape Higher capacities = higher $$$$ Qauntum 600GB

Backup Media cont’ AIT - Advanced Intelligent Tapes – 500GB? VXA – 160GB? LTO – Linear Tape Open HP AJ038A Black 76.8TB Rack mount Fibre Channel Interface LTO Ultrium 4 StorageWorks MSL4048 Tape Library $12K!!!!

My Sample Server

Linux Backup Tools Open Source options: dump tar rsync (Apple’s Time Machine uses this) Amanda Bacula (heavily used, very popular)

DUMP Linux utility Creates backups that can span several tapes Backups/restores any file type Allows for incremental backups Maintains file permissions, ownership, and modification times

DUMP cont Dump does not work across remote file systems Dump only works on one disk partition Dump is based on levels (0 to N) A level N dump backs up all files that have changed since the last dump of level less than N Level 0 puts entire file system on tape The “restore” command will restore files archived by dump

Dump example To make a backup for a directory or file : dump -0f tbackup /home/tavaris This command creates a dump-file called “tbackup” which is the backup of /home/tavaris/data directory. dump-level 0 (specifies full-backup) To make a backup for a directory or file which is already backedup with dump level 0: dump -1f tbackup /home/tavaris/ dump level 1 (specifies incremental backup)

Tar f “filename appears after arguments” z “compress with gzip” tar (1) (Tape Archive) dates back to Version 6 of AT&T UNIX (circa 1975). tar operates in cooperation with the file system; tar writes files and directories to tape or to a file. Usage: tar [options] archive-file-name files-to-archive c -"create archive". v "verbose” print all the filenames added or extracted from archive f “filename appears after arguments” z “compress with gzip” M “multi-volume” x “extract” d “compare” use to verify backups n “newer” for incremental backups

Examples using tar Let's take a backup of /etc where most configuration files reside, and place it in /home/backups: # mkdir /home/backups # tar -cvf /home/backups/etc.tar /etc Remember: The -c option to tar tells it to create an archive, -v specifies verbose output and -f specifies the file to be either written to or read from. You'll see quite a lot of output as tar creates the archive at this point.

Examples using tar Now we check whether our archive has actually been created # cd /home/backups # ls -al This now show us a new file in this directory etc.tar If we now wanted to view the contents of this backup we can run # tar -tvf etc.tar

Examples using tar This will show you the contents of the etc directory as you backed it up. To actually restore and and unpack the contents that were backed up previously: # cd /home/backups # tar -xvf etc.tar

Examples using tar Notice that the restore actually creates a new directory etc where you are located – not in /etc ! This is because tar by default removes the leading '/' from the directories it has backed up in order not to overwrite the original files on your system when you choose to do a restore (a security consideration)

Tar Exercise Backup /etc directory to /home/student/backups/ cd mkdir backups tar –cvf /home/student/backups/etc.tar /etc cd backups View the contents that were backed up tar –tvf etc.tar

Bacula Primer Bacula is an open source set of applications for creating archives of filestysems and restoring file systems from archives Enterprise level software Can backup Unix, Linux, and Windows systems Supports tape libraries, auto-changers, and multiple volumes Creates a hash signature of file system For file verification And more!!!

Backups + Dracula = Bacula It comes by night and sucks the vital essence from your computers!

Bacula Components

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