At 10:41 PM 3/30/2011 -0400, Chris Nighswonger wrote:

[snip] Before I start adding more "Authorized values" to a near-production Koha db,

I'll let others answer the other questions, however, I trust that before you add, subtract, do-any-sort-of-foo to your near-production DB, you make a quick backup of it using mysqldump.... Then you can try all sorts of things w/out worry.

Better yet, setup a cron job to run a dump at regular intervals so you can "roll back" if need be.

Thanks Chris - all covered. Formal total backup (rdiff) every 01.00 a.m., partial set for every hour, dump manually as required ... Paul Tired old sys-admin