SUNScholar/Disaster Recovery/Backups/Client Setup/Server Sync

Step 2. Setup daily sync to remote server

Create an rsync config file

sudo nano /etc/rsyncd.conf

Copy and paste the following.

[backup]
path = /var/backup

[home]
path = /home

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NANO Editor Help

CTL+O	= Save the file and then press Enter
CTL+X	= Exit "nano"
CTL+K	= Delete line
CTL+U	= Undelete line
CTL+W	= Search for %%string%%
CTL+\	= Search for %%string%% and replace with $$string$$
CTL+C	= Show line numbers

More info = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nano_(text_editor)

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Enable the rsync server

sudo nano /etc/default/rsync

Change false to true.

RSYNC_ENABLE=true

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NANO Editor Help

CTL+O	= Save the file and then press Enter
CTL+X	= Exit "nano"
CTL+K	= Delete line
CTL+U	= Undelete line
CTL+W	= Search for %%string%%
CTL+\	= Search for %%string%% and replace with $$string$$
CTL+C	= Show line numbers

More info = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nano_(text_editor)

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Start the rsync server

sudo /etc/init.d/rsync restart

Check the rysnc server

sudo rsync localhost::backup

sudo rsync localhost::home

Add a firewall rule to allow the backup server to get to the backup files

sudo ufw allow from %hostname% to any port 873

Replace %hostname% with the hostname of your backup server.

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