From: RoLaNd RoLaNd <r_o_l_a_n_d at hotmail.com> >excuse my newbie question but how can i backup my centos server? >i have a dozzen of virtual hosts over it as well as substantial database entries.. >i've backed up the following directories using rsync: >workspace/ >/etc/httpd/ >/etc/apache-tomcat-6.0.20/ >/usr/lib/mysql/ >/var/lib/mysql For mysql, I would use mysqldump instead of rsyncing the whole mysql directories... Something like: mysqldump <DATABASE> | gzip -9 > <DATABASE>-<DATE>.gz JD