Hi Stephen
Two new documents have been loaded on http://www.kohadocs.org: "Updating Koha" and "Backups and Restoring," both by Joshua Ferraro.
I was using a little script to backup koha's database it is similar to yours at documentation. I was working it as a cron job every evening at 8 o'clock automatically. But because of it has some sensitive information (login name and passwords) I've protect it with standard linux autoration with user and access limits here is details: user: kohaadmin access: chmod 600 backup_script cron: 8 o'clock at evening -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #!/bin/bash # koha's back-up cron script BACKUP=koha`date +%y%m%d` mysqldump --add-drop-table -uXXX -pXXX Koha >/var/backup/$BACKUP ncftpput -V -u USER -p XXX 160.75.14.95 Koha /var/backup/$BACKUP --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This script is generating a copy of whole koha database in /var/backup directory on a file named a file initial koha and continued year+moth+day for example: koha041221 koha041222 koha041223 This means a file for every day. But you can configure this period as you want. Then for a strong backup strategy, script is copying same backup file to another machine with command ncftpput. But this was an old way now it is more useful and secure to use scp command as you document. Best regards. Zeki Celikbas Librarian ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Istanbul Technical University e:celikbas@itu.edu.tr Faculty of Aero. & Astro. w:http://www2.itu.edu.tr/~celikbas 34469 Maslak Istanbul Turkey t:(212)2853108 f: (212)2853139 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~