[CentOS] What to backup?

[John R Pierce]

Slack-Moehrle wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am now working on a plan of what to backup from various servers that I have running
>
> I run Apache, so httpd.conf and /var/www/html
>
> I run Zimbra currently, so /opt/zimbra/store, /opt/zimbra/my.cnf and /opt/zimbra/db/
>
> I run MySQL, so /etc/my.cnf and /var/lib/mysql 
>
> Can I simply write a bash script to tar.gz these areas, scp them and put it in a cron job?
>
> Is there anything special that I have to do with MySQL since it is running?
>
>   

for centos apache, you'll want everything in /etc/httpd/...

and, my websites other than the default one are generally in 
/home/someaccount/html as I dont like having /var get that big.

for mysql, you'll want to do a dump of your databases, and backup that 
dumpfile, rather than backing up the filestore. 
the only safe way to do a file level backup of a database server's 
backing store is to stop the sql server, then back it up.

I dunno anything about zimbra.

you probably also want to backup your /home dirs