I know I had asked this many moons ago, but never really found a
viable option.
There is CarbonCopyCloner, and SuperDuper... but those clone drives.
You can use ASR and such to image out a running system. Just stop all
the services first. Depending on your system configuration (I.E. No
ACLs enabled on the source volume.) you can use all of the
traditional tools now such as tar, cpio, and rsync. The big exception
to the norm is that there is no generic tape device to send the data to.
We have articles on backup and links to Dhwalli's backup whitepaper.
If you need tape then a commercial solution like Retrospect, Bru,
Atempo is needed.
I am looking for something that will back up all the "nitty gritty"
stuff in OS X server. User accounts, system settings, etc.
Typically I would dump those out and then backup the dumps. That way
you only need to backup the data and not the chafe of the general OS
around it. I can get that back from a installer disk. We have scripts
to automate this stuff and directions for automating OD archives on
Tiger.
A carbon copy cloner would work, but then I have to take the server
down to use it. Is there anything that can be used while the
system is up?
Just stop the services first. This is really easy to script with
serveradmin. FWIW, Bombich never intended CCC to be used on Mac OS X
Server.
I'm looking for something as simple as DotMac Backup, only for the
server. (I haven't tried using DotMac Backup on the root directory
yet, although it may work).
Retrospect might do what you are looking for. It's simple and works
well for small deployments.
Just looking for something that will let me keep the system up
while we backup user accounts, website settings, email settings,
etc on the server end.
Stop the service or connections, dump the diffs, restart services,
backup the dumps. If you are going to a tape device then archive the
loose files first to get better performance out of your tape device.
Even an Applescript would do :)
Sure. I had some for single click workstation backups at my last gig.
Some used psync, some used Finder copies. It depended on the
application.
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