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