On 2/23/2010 5:48 PM, 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? > > If helpful, I can take what I learn and update the Wiki if there is not already a procedure for doing these operations on it. Whenever someone mentions backups, I always recommend backuppc because it will do a better job with less archive space than anything else. You can read about it here: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ and there is a packaged version in the epel repository. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com