2. Implementing a Backup Catalog… on a Student Budget

3. History

4. A long time ago, in a library far,far away …

5. A nother B ackup C atalog By Don Hamilton

6. CatBackup

7. 2000 newbie installs RedHat Linux late

8. 2001 application software Voyager early

9. 2001 VoyagerKVCC application software early

10. 2001 VoyagerKVCC summer it’s working!!!

11. 2001 go to rack-mount machine fall 2001fall

12. 2002 hacked! winter ready to use

13. 2002 summer REBUILT First live use during Voyager upgrade!

14. 2002 fall Hacked again!

15. 2002 2003 winter REBUILT major software rewrite because: switch to PostgreSQL newer version of Perl (5.8.0)

16. 2002 2003 spring added a third database switched to secureftp for extract feed

17. 2002 2003 summer full automation achieved! no monitoring required

18. See it in action: Original implementation Implementation at WMU http://abc.wlu.ca http://westcatbackup.library.wmich.edu

19. Implementing a Backup Catalog… on a Student Budget Implementation

20. CatBackup

21. 1. install RedHat Linux Implementation CatBackup

22. 1. install RedHat Linux Implementation 2. install PostgresQL CatBackup

23. 1. install RedHat Linux Implementation 2. install PostgresQL 3. install Perl supporting CatBackup modules

24. 1. install RedHat Linux Implementation 2. install PostgresQL 3. install Perl supporting 4. create home environment for SOBackup CatBackup modules

25. 1. install RedHat Linux Implementation 2. install PostgresQL 3. install Perl supporting 4. create home environment 5. install CatBackup software: for SOBackup build files HTML file image files cgi file log reporter (optional) CatBackup modules

26. Implementation CatBackup extract software Voyager

27. Production Voyager CatBackup regular feed via secureftp Feeding thecat backup

28. Search Log Some search log entries: 63.148.122.205-- 06::16:32:11--2|1|pumps|48 216.120.170.5-- 06::16:41:44--1|7|christopher and|1 63.148.122.205-- 06::16:32:11--2|1|pumps|48 216.120.170.5-- 06::16:41:44--1|7|christopher and|1 A search log file is created for each month, and the filename contains the year and the month.

29. Search Log

30. Catbackup Resources I http://www.redhat.com/download/products.html http://fedora.redhat.com/download/ http://fedora.redhat.com/docs http://www.redhat.com/solutions/migration/rhl/ http://www.postgres.org

31. Catbackup Resources II http://homepages.wmich.edu/~zimmer catbackup.ppt catbackup_history.doc catbackup_instructions.doc catbackup.tar.gz http://search.cpan.org/author/TIMB/ /SNOWHARE/ /DWHEELER/ /MSCHWARTZ/ /GAAS/ /DANKOGAI/

32. Comments on Cost Price of PC – as much as several thousand, or possibly free if you have an available machine Price of Software – free Cost of Labor – free (built into overhead) Benefit of Implementation – priceless, when you need it! (and it might not cost you anything!)

33. Thanks for listening.Questions? zimmer@wmich.edu 269.387.3885 Clip Art in this presentation is © 1999-2004 www.barrysclipart.com (some modified slightly)www.barrysclipart.com Picture © 2003 Roy Zimmer