How I backup my server configs with lsyncd
In the event that something happens to my server, or one of the services running on my machine, I like to have a backup of my config for that particular service. Ain’t nothing worse than taking hours or even days to properly configure a service to have a hard drive crash, operating system got corrupted, an update replaced your config file with the default or maybe you accidentally deleted the config or made some mistakes modifying it. This post shows how i use lsyncd and logrotate to automatically sync my /etc directory on my server with a remote machine and use logrotate to create and rotate 2 backup copies of the /etc directory.
The machines involved are main_server and backup_server. Read more
