At Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:48:24 -0800 (PST) CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> 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. What *I'd* do, is have separate partitions for /, /var /opt and /home. And do a monthy full dump of each file system, weekly incremental dumps of /var and /opt, and daily or every other day incremental dumps of /home. It is probably iffy to get a meaningful dump of mysql's running database. It probably makes better sense to do a SQL dump -- 'man mysqldump'. > > -Jason > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller at deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/