On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 03:48:24PM -0800, 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 Might not be a bad idea to back up all of /etc. I'm not familiar with Zimbra, so you should refer to their documentation to make sure just copying their "db" files is sufficient. > > Can I simply write a bash script to tar.gz these areas, scp them and > put it in a cron job? Sure. > Is there anything special that I have to do with MySQL since it is > running? I'd take a look at: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/backup-methods.html mysqldump works pretty well in most cases. > > 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. > > -Jason Ray