Backup and Restore your Centos 7

Some time you want to take backup of your server including application and settings .below are the easy method a small example

1- The first step is to create a location to store the backup. For this article we’re going to store the backup on the same hard drive as the installed operating system

2-Make a backup directory where you will keep backup file.

mkdir /backup

3- Now we will create a compressed version of the Operating System in one single file (tarball) using the tar command.

tar cvpzf /backup/backup.tgz --exclude=/proc --exclude=/lost+found --exclude=/backups --exclude=/dev --exclude=/sys --exclude=/boot/grub --exclude=/boot/grub2 --exclude=/etc/fstab --exclude=/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ --exclude=/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules  /

Now transfer your backup.tgz file to new server .In order to restore your server from the previously created tarball the server must have the same Operating System version loaded on it.

To Restore your backup use the following.

tar xvpfz /backups/backup.tgz -C /

 

VOS3000 2.1.4.0 does not support latest Kernel Versions. you have to downgrade Kernel

mkdir download
cd download/
wget http://vault.centos.org/6.4/os/x86_64/Packages/kernel-2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64.rpm
yum list kernel-2.6.32-358*
yum install kernel-2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64.rpm
ls
vi /boot/grub/menu.lst
reboot

Login to your server

To STOP Apache Tomcat Server

# /home/kunshiweb/base/apache-tomcat/bin/shutdown.sh

To START Apache Tomcat server

#/home/kunshiweb/base/apache-tomcat/bin/startup.sh

Update of packages using default repositories (base, update etc.) is no longer applicable.You should switch boxes, run on CentOS 5.x., to so called Vault repositories.

1- Disable base, updates and other enabled repositories (where enabled=1 is set) in the CentOS-Base.repo: 

sed -i 's/enabled=1/enabled=0/g' /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo

create a new repo file and enter the following lines

vim  /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Vault.repo

[c5.11-base]
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5
gpgcheck=1
name=CentOS-5.11 - Base
baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/5.11/os/$basearch/
exclude=ruby* libyaml* corosync* corosynclib* pacemaker*
enabled=1
[c5.11-updates]
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5
gpgcheck=1
name=CentOS-5.11 - Updates
baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/5.11/updates/$basearch/
exclude=ruby* libyaml* corosync* corosynclib* pacemaker*
enabled=1

original link :- https://docs.onapp.com/misc/eol-centos-5-x