may be rsync help You Or u can try raid 0[mirrorig] for replicate failover triying drbd and heartbeat but I've tested and unsuccessfull on my zimbra machines Regards, David ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ./nobody John Doe wrote: > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >