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Remote Backup
You should have a remote backup
(offsite). Remote backups are also called disaster recovery backups. For
more information on remote backups you may visit
www.customware.com/backup.html. Whether it is to a paid service like CustomWare
Designs or to your own server at home or other office you should
regularly create and store remote backups. In most cases, your ISP
provider allows you enough storage to keep a backup on their server.
Most backups, including
transmission, takes less than ˝ hour, depending
your internet connection speed. Most compressions take less than 10
minutes (for 150Mb of uncompressed data it takes about 4 minutes)
CustomWare© provides for
automatic remote backups or manual remote backups. In the Disk Maintenance
Center, option 5 - Remote Backup you can set it up and have peace of mind
that a backup is being taken without your intervention.
How it works:
Remote backup first reboots the
computer (Linux/UNIX systems) to ensure that all files are closed. Most
of the time all the files are closed anyway - this happens every time you
return to a menu but sometimes someone leaves a screen on some other
function and some files may not be closed. To successfully backup a file
it must be closed.
Then it compresses all CustomWare©
and Pragma© files into a single zip file. After the compression, using
FTP (Windows default ftp or Linux/UNIX default ftp) it logs onto a remote
system and transfers the zip file to the remote server. It MUST be an FTP
server.
For Linux/UNIX systems you
should be logged in as root when you set up the remote backup. For
Windows systems you should be logged in as Administrator.
1. Run
This is used for testing and
manual remote backups. Select it to perform a remote backup.
2 Set Up
1 Local Backup Directory J:\CWBACKUP
This is where your compressed backup will be stored on your local
computer. It is also where the backup program files are stored.
2 Backup Schedule
Day 6 Saturday
What day of the week you want the backup
to take place. There is an option for every day if you wish, but not
multiple days.
3 Backup Schedule
Time 12:30 A.M.
What time you want the backup
to start.
4 Backup Schedule
Frequency 1 Every Week on Selected Day
Options are:
1 Every Week on Selected
Day (default) In this case it would be every Saturday
2 Last Selected Day of
Month Only on the last Saturday of every month
3 First Selected Day of
Month Only on the first Saturday of every month
4 Every Day This ties to
the backup schedule Day (option 2) and will backup every day
5 Remote IP
Address
This is the remote IP address
of your backup server. Examples: 166.70.102.21 or ftp.xmission.com
6 Remote Login
Your login name on the remote
ftp server. It should be exact as most logins are case sensitive.
7 Remote Password
Your password on the remote
server. It also is probably case sensitive. 8 Remote Commands You may
need to do certain commands, like changing to a different directory than
the login default. These commands are ftp commands and should be
recognized by the remote ftp program. Separate commands are separated by
the caret (^). An example might be:
cd
ftp^cd backup
which would look like this after
the ftp script file is created:
cd
ftp cd backup
You could also do it all on one
line: cd ftp/backup
9 ZIP Version 6 WZZIP
CustomWare© uses PKZIP©,
WinZip© Command Line (version 9 or later), the Linux default zip or UNIX
"zip". How the programs work is different so you need to select
which version is on your computer.
10 Reboot Command
You need a reboot command for
Linux/UNIX systems. Defaults are tied to your Operating System option in
Company Set Up. For Linux/UNIX this command would simply be: reboot. For
Windows XP it would be "shutdown -r -f -t 01 -d up:125:1"
A reboot is not necessary for single user systems.
11 Schedule Task Command [command]
This is used to automatically
set up a run time for the backup. It places a job in Windows Task
Scheduler or in the Linux/UNIX ATJOB list. The default can be used unless
it is not what you'd like. You may enter any operating system command to
schedule this task. In UNIX systems you may also use cron
instead of atjob.
12 New Files only?
This option should most likely
not be used because Pragma© files are all tied together. However, you can
set the backup to only backup files that have been changed or added
within a certain number of days. The default (F9 key) will put the
appropriate command for the zip version you are using. You can then
modify it. For example, the default is 31 days. You can use the default ( -td31 ) and then change it to 60 ( -td60 ). TAKE
CARE to place a space after the last digit.
13 Encryption Level 0 NO
ENCRYPTION
Encryption makes it so the
backup cannot be opened without a password. Depending on your zip version
you have several options. For WinZip 9, you have the "default"
WinZip encryption (not recommended), 128 bit AES or 256 bit AES. AES
encryption methods, when used correctly, cannot be broken.
14 Encryption Password
If you're using encryption, you
need a password to use for the encryption. It can be anything and everything
EXCEPT the double quote (") mark. It should be of sufficient length
for a "proper" unbreakable encryption. The "proper"
minimum for 128 bit AES encryption would be 32 characters, for 128 bit
AES it would be 64 characters but it can be as long (or short) as you
like.
15 Preferred Password Length 0
This is set automatically when
you choose an encryption level but you can reset it to any number. When
you enter an encryption password, CustomWare© will let you know when you
have reached or exceeded this number of characters.
3 Create Script/Batch File
This option creates the operating
system files necessary to perform the remote backup. Usually, there is a
program file, an exceptions list, a backup list and an ftp command file,
depending on your operating system. This should be run only AFTER you've
run all set up options. When this option is run it creates (for Windows
XP):
Creating the EXCEPT file...
Create the Backup List (BULIST)
file...
Creating the BACKUP PROGRAM (rbu.bat)...
Creating the auto FTP (ftppbu.txt)
file...
4 Edit Script/Batch
Files/Backup/Except
You may edit the files created. In
Windows it uses the MS-DOS EDIT command. In Linux/UNIX it uses vi. You
may also edit them using a text editor (it MUST BE PLAIN TEXT) of your
choosing.
5 Set Schedule For Automatic
This performs the operating
system command to add the remote backup and reboot to your system's task
scheduler. This currently does not work for Windows XP.
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The last time you ran the remote
backup program. This does not update when the operating system performs
the backup. This is only updated when you manually run the backup.
The files (on a Windows XP
system) look like this (default settings):
rbu.bat
IF EXIST J:\CWBACKUP\MYBU.ZIP DEL
J:\CWBACKUP\MYBU.ZIP
J:
cd
\CWBACKUP
wzzip -u
-ex -P -r -x@EXCEPT J:\CWBACKUP\MYBU @BULIST
C:\WINDOWS\system32\ftp.exe -v -i -s:ftppbu.txt ftp.xmission.com
I:
cd \CWD
BULIST
I:\CWD\*.*
EXCEPT
(empty by default)
You may add specific files or types
of files. The convention would be like this (Linux and UNIX are case
sensitive to file names so you may have to enter case different
exceptions):
*.EXE
*.BAT
*.COM
*.prn
*.ZIP
*.zip
*.csv
FTPPBU.TXT
mylogin
mypassword
cd ftp
cd backup
binary
put MYBU.ZIP
quit
TAKE THAT BACKUP!!!
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