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The backup system has been broken into two custom scripts. First one is to create local copy of the configurations and to back up the repository to removable drives, it is called blaze. The second script is called wildfire and it is to synchronize those local copies to different locations over the network. The servers get the copies of those scripts from the central backup management and storage server (iraq) via scp and runs blaze first and then wildfire. The scripts are located at:
/usr/local/bin/
==Space consideration and allocation==
For backing up the configurations and keeping copies of those for the previous 30 days and also allocating room for possible synced copies from other servers requires at least 10GB space. To accommodate for the synced copy of the repository that size could go up to 1.7T
===Initial Setup===
* Add a new lvm called archive that will be mounted as /archive on startup (add an entry to /etc/fstab). LVM tutorial available [http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/OPS235_Lab_4 here]
* Create the following directories
/archive/blaze-backup /ar
==Backup script explanation/source==