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Cedar Backup Software Manual

Kenneth J. Pronovici

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Table of Contents

Preface

Purpose

Audience

Conventions Used in This Book

Typographic Conventions
Icons

Organization of This Manual

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

What is Cedar Backup?
How to Get Support
History

2. Basic Concepts

General Architecture

Cedar Backup Pools

The Backup Process

The Collect Action
The Stage Action
The Store Action
The Purge Action
The All Action
The Validate Action
The Rebuild Action

Coordination between Master and Clients

Media and Device Types

Incremental Backups

Extensions

3. Installation

Background

Installing on a Debian System

Installing from Source

Installing Dependencies
Installing the Source Package

4. Configuration

Overview

Command Line Interface

Syntax
Switches
Actions

Configuration File Format

Sample Configuration File
Reference Configuration
Options Configuration
Collect Configuration
Stage Configuration
Store Configuration
Purge Configuration
Extensions Configuration

Setting up a Pool of One

Step 1: Make sure email works.
Step 2: Configure your CD-R or CD-RW drive.
Step 3: Configure your backup user.
Step 4: Create your backup tree.
Step 5: Modify the backup cron jobs.
Step 6: Create the Cedar Backup configuration file.
Step 7: Validate the Cedar Backup configuration file.
Step 8: Test your backup.

Setting up a Client Peer Node

Step 1: Make sure email works.
Step 2: Configure the master in your backup pool.
Step 3: Configure your backup user.
Step 4: Create your backup tree.
Step 5: Modify the backup cron jobs.
Step 6: Create the Cedar Backup configuration file.
Step 7: Validate the Cedar Backup configuration file.
Step 8: Test your backup.

Setting up a Master Peer Node

Step 1: Make sure email works.
Step 2: Configure your CD-R or CD-RW drive.
Step 3: Configure your backup user.
Step 4: Create your backup tree.
Step 5: Modify the backup cron jobs.
Step 6: Create the Cedar Backup configuration file.
Step 7: Validate the Cedar Backup configuration file.
Step 8: Test connectivity to client machines.
Step 9: Test your backup.

A. Extension Architecture Interface

B. Dependencies

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