Backup Tools - Revision history

Scott.morris at 23:51, 20 May 2014

2014-05-20T23:51:00Z

2014-05-09T20:31:52Z

2014-03-28T19:01:50Z

2013-10-10T20:25:29Z

Restoring Backups

2013-08-30T23:39:24Z

2013-05-24T00:19:19Z

Examples

2013-05-24T00:16:57Z

Examples

2013-05-18T22:27:55Z

2013-05-18T22:17:07Z

2013-02-14T22:31:06Z

Categorized

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
 {{Migrated}}
-[https://docs.google.com/document/d/18hPx3NBizcfb4gfOu3h0V_JiX97B5yqohW-7hO-0ZXA/edit?usp=sharing]
+[https://docs.google.com/document/d/18hPx3NBizcfb4gfOu3h0V_JiX97B5yqohW-7hO-0ZXA/edit?usp=sharing New Page]
 There area a  set of command line tools that automate common  tasks in Tech Support called tstools. They can be installed via apt-get on Free Geek boxes.

← Older revision		Revision as of 20:31, 9 May 2014
Line 1:		Line 1:
−	{{~~Migrate~~}}	+	{{Migrated}}
		+
		+	[https://docs.google.com/document/d/18hPx3NBizcfb4gfOu3h0V_JiX97B5yqohW-7hO-0ZXA/edit?usp=sharing]

	There area a set of command line tools that automate common tasks in Tech Support called tstools. They can be installed via apt-get on Free Geek boxes.		There area a set of command line tools that automate common tasks in Tech Support called tstools. They can be installed via apt-get on Free Geek boxes.

← Older revision		Revision as of 19:01, 28 March 2014
Line 1:		Line 1:
		+	{{Migrate}}
		+
	There area a set of command line tools that automate common tasks in Tech Support called tstools. They can be installed via apt-get on Free Geek boxes.		There area a set of command line tools that automate common tasks in Tech Support called tstools. They can be installed via apt-get on Free Geek boxes.

← Older revision		Revision as of 20:25, 10 October 2013
Line 129:		Line 129:
	Restore data from a backup of a windows machine stored in 20121223-99999-A to a folder called Old_Files on oem's desktop		Restore data from a backup of a windows machine stored in 20121223-99999-A to a folder called Old_Files on oem's desktop

−	<code>ts_network_backup -r 20121223-99999-A -d -A /home/oem/Desktop/</code>	+	<code>ts_network_backup -r 20121223-99999-A -d -A /home/oem/Desktop/Old_Files</code>
		+
		+	N.B. This is a better way of achieving the same thing if the user is running as oem (restores them to home and symlinks the folder on oem's desktop).
		+
		+	<code>ts_network_backup -r 20121223-99999-A -d -A /home/Old_Files</code>
		+
		+	<code>ln -s /home/Old_Files /home/oem/Desktop</code>
		+
		+	When restoring backups in this way make sure the files have the right permissions so that the user can read (and write) them.

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
-There area a  set of command line tools that automate common  tasks in Tech Support called tstools. The latest version can be fould at http://tsbackup/tstools.tar.gz.
+There area a  set of command line tools that automate common  tasks in Tech Support called tstools. They can be installed via apt-get on Free Geek boxes.
-Download and extract the file:
-     tar -xvzf tstools.tar.gz
+     apt-get install fg-tstools
 The main tools of interest are''' <code>ts_network_backup</code>''' which automates the backup process, and '''<code>ts_identify_backups</code>''' which identifies a backup directory given a ticket number.
@@ Line 11: / Line 8: @@
 All commands come with a built in help system that can be accessed with the -h option.
 (As it is rather long the help section for ts_network_backup is included below).

← Older revision		Revision as of 00:19, 24 May 2013
Line 105:		Line 105:

	== Examples ==		== Examples ==
		+	N.B. You normally need to cd in to the tstools_package directory before running commands. You would also add ./ at the front so the command is really e.g. <code>./ts_network_backup -c 99999</code>

	==== Creating Backups ====		==== Creating Backups ====

@@ Line 105: / Line 105: @@
 == Examples ==
 Backup an externally mounted drive mounted at /mnt/. Do not backup any programs.
@@ Line 117: / Line 120: @@
 <code>ts_network_backup -c 99999 -a '/mnt/dd' -R -t A</code>
 [[Category: Tech support]]

@@ Line 19: / Line 19: @@
 The following have been obsoleted by changed procedures, to some extent, but may be useful on odd occasions:
 <code>ts_login_as_user, ts_make_tsuser, ts_revert_passwords</code>
@@ Line 46: / Line 42: @@
 to perform the restore.
-N.B. on the backup rack  you MUST use the -p option to specify the path to the mounted disc.
+N.B. on the backup rack  you MUST use the -p  or -a option to specify the path to the mounted disc.
 <pre>
@@ Line 109: / Line 103: @@
 </pre>
 [[Category: Tech support]]

@@ Line 46: / Line 46: @@
 to perform the restore.
-N.B. on tsdata you MUST use the -p option to specify the path to the mounted disc.
+N.B. on the backup rack  you MUST use the -p option to specify the path to the mounted disc.
@@ Line 88: / Line 88: @@
 	-F			Force the overwriting an existing backup
 				or restoring with -A and not -d
 	-A /path/to/directory	Use this to restore the backup to somewhere
                                  other than /home

← Older revision		Revision as of 22:31, 14 February 2013
Line 101:		Line 101:
	Can be used with or without -u or -d.		Can be used with or without -u or -d.
	</pre>		</pre>
		+
		+	[[Category: Tech support]]