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==='''Practical setup tips'''===
==='''Practical setup tips'''===
Change these to suit your particular situation.
In a typical scenario with Windows workstations backing up to a removable or attached drive in a workstation, with a weekly full backup on Friday and subsequent daily incremental backups & you wish to retain 2 backup sets on each disk, with backup to start at 8pm and finish at 8am, use the following settings.
Backup is enabled.
Backup is made on LAN workstation netshare via smbfs
Destination backup share folder is backup
Login is backupuser
Password is ********
Number of rotating backup sets is 2
Number of daily backups contained in each set is 7
Compression level (0-7) of backup is 4
Daily backup occurs at 20:00
Each daily backup session is cleanly timed out after 12h except full backups which are cleanly timed out after 24 hours
Full backup session (new backup sets) is allowed only on Friday
==='''Removal/uninstall information'''===
The base sme server code is in the modified e-smith-backup rpm, so no changes are made to the standard core functionality of the sme server backup routines. The modified rpm can be left installed, just do not use any of the additional functionality.
To fully remove the rpm & configuration from your system and reinstall the base rpm do the following steps. Check the current version of e-smith-backup (in the smeos repository location listed below) and replace the code appropriately.
rpm -e --nodeps e-smith-backup
mkdir -p /newfolder
wget http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/smeserver/releases/7/smeos/i386/SME/RPMS/e-smith-backup-1.14.0-16.el4.sme.noarch.rpm
yum localinstall e-smith-backup*.rpm
signal-event post-upgrade
reboot
Check for any orphaned cron jobs & delete them if necessary
rm /etc/cron.d.backupwk
Edit the smeupdates repository default Exclude file & remove the entry for e-smith-backup (that was made during install)
pico /etc/e-smith/db/yum_repositories/defaults/smeupdates/Exclude
Then remove e-smith-backup & save the changes (Ctrl + o then Ctrl + x), followed by
/etc/e-smith/events/actions/initialize-default-databases
expand-template /etc/yum.conf
The standard Software installer panel/yum update process will now automatically update e-smith-backup if a new version is released.
Check the versions of rpms installed (& if installed) with
rpm -qa dar
rpm -qa e-smith-backup
