Yea, I’m more referring to a situation of a hd failure or a scenario where I had a rootkit infect the server and had to trash it .
I guess I should have qualified that, in the scenario of the rootkit, once the rootkit was discovered, they give you a small amount ot time before you get to wake up with a clean server with your old drive accessable for a period of time, as I suspect anyone like EV1 would do.
So my process is to login to the new server, wget the webmin rpm, install it, login to webmin and access the restore file and tell it to restore /home from last nights dump then restore all the config files, then restore live database data from the latest hourly dump, etc.
Before I decided to make the switch EV1 would have set me up with a server with Ensim on it already, which is what happend last time and when I found out about how bad their backup/restore process was as it literally took me 2.5 days to fully recover, thus I went the webmin route and tested restoring to a new server and the entire process took me less than two hours from the time the new server was handed to me.
I have not tested Interworx’s restore yet, but it looks like I’d have to have a method of accessing the system. Accessing the secondary mounted drive (FWIW, I now have a mirror drive I backup to), navigatingto the domain name, identifying the file name of the latest backup and then typing all of that into the restore box, restoring the site and then moving on to the next one.
And that’s after I’ve gone through the non-painless process of reinstalling Interworx, of course Interworx is going to have to be reinstalled anyway, thus I’m assuming that I’d install it first after webmin anyway, then restore /home, but I’m actually unsure of the process.
the rootkit was nasty, really upset my clients that I one got infected with one and two that it took me so long to recover, something that I guaranteed then would never happen again.
It was my fault, I had left an easy crack of a password on the server along with root login, thus I got what I deserved. Me and whoever it was were actually attempting to lock each other out for a time, I won because I had webmin and was able to quickly install a firewall with only the webmin port open, this allowed me to find out where the rk was, this is important because you want to insure you don’t restore it, and 2 take some last minute backups before I trashed the server.
I’d rather deal with a HD failure personally:>)
So based on this what would be the process with Interworx, if we were to awaken to a brand new server starting from scratch?