• Setup

Setup

Tasks to do:

• Identify how many Banks, Vaults, and images I need.
  

• Install dirvish and setup the initial config file
  

• Answer the question as to how to get the 'offline' DIRVISH backup. If I re-rsync, it will consume more network bandwidth. If I rsync the inhouse disk to the offsite disk, I lose the ability to keep OLD OLD stuff that /may/ have been expired from the inhouse disk. Answer: I have to run rsync twice. There is no current way to sync between one source data and two destinations. That would be an interesting hack to rsync though.
  

• Modify log rotate to use date codes when rotating. Slackware doesn't do this
  

• Identify other log files that need excluding (samba?)

Allocating disk slots for Dirvish use

I will begin by assigning slot 4:0 for use by the GWIFS and GWIVM(virtual server) backups. Slot 4:1 will hold the disk for the GWIFW server (FTP AND EMAIL STUFF). The short expire time should keep this Dirvish volume from growing out of control. Slots 4:3 and 4:4 will pretty much mirror 4:0 and 4:1 but two pairs of drives will be used and they will be swapped out and stored offsite each week.

Slot 4:1 will be used by the GWIFW backup. slot 4:5 will be use to hold one of the two disks that will be the offsite GWIFW backup

Note: By using LVM (Logical Volume Management), I can add drive space to any Dirvish volume. This would involve growing the file system too. Thar be dragons!