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The other half of the raid array for the homedirs in dalek is sitting in brigadier. We do not have any form of backups of homedirs in place, other than a copy from about a year ago.
Same applies to the webserver, although it's raid is in place, the disk has some very bizarre filesystem errors (re: ~kate/qcmweb)
Things to backup
User data
This is stuff we just can't get back/rebuild
**ldap **\\Currently backed up to /root/ldap/backup on baker (the ldap server). This should backup elsewhere, for obvious reasons.
Home dirs **\\THIS IS UNRAIDED AND NOT BACKED UP!** This has to get fixed on tardis_day_i.
**Mail dirs **\\Similarly
**Web dirs **\\Raid-Mirrored. Not backed-up.
**Databases **\\Not backed up. We should probably do SQL dumps, rather than dumps of the raw db backened.
Other stuff
**System configurations
**\\lcfg proved too much of a beast to handle. Best methods for doing this, suggestions?
Tarballing /etc would help in a lot of cases, but isn't a proper solution.
**System logs **\\There's probably some sense in this, if we get haX0rised, but that's probably OTT.
Might be worth sending syslogs to a log_server, which only l33t admins can access? - sjh
Seems such a facility already existed on dalek, it just hadn't been used since early 2004 - this was like 300MB of logs a day - would want to seriously bitshift this down to reasonable size if we want to consider storing them - Seth 18:28, 29 January 2006 (GMT)
**The wiki **\\MediaWiki has facilities for this - probably want to automate…