I am wondering about backups for my server. I had run a webserver with a LAMP stack on an old netbook for several years, and had never backed it up. Not best practice, but I digress. I recently purchased my first rackmount server, and I want to do things properly. It is a Raid 1 with 2 hard drives.
After spending many hours setting up and securing my webserver, with databases, virtual servers, etc, I would like to make a complete backup of my server.
I plan to do regular backups of both the server and the database seperately, but for now I would like to make a complete backup of the entire server, to where I could restore an entire server installation to the current state. Ideally I would like to back up to external hard drives.
What would be a good strategy to do this? I dont require remote backups. Sorry if I am asking the wrong questions here, but as a programmer I am trying to figure out the world of server admins.
If anyone can give me some good tips on making/testing backups for a ubuntu server I would appreciate it