[Koha] Koha Config All stored in Database?

[Johannes Graumann]

Indranil Das Gupta wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Johannes Graumann
> <johannes_graumann at web.de
>> wrote:
> 
> 
>> When setting up a Koha server using the debian packages is the koha
>> configuration all stored in the mysql database? I would be very happy if
>> that wasn't the case, as I then could track my configuration follies
>> using a
>> VCS as git ...
>>
> 
> Actually, quite a bit of the critical Koha config is stored in plain-text
> or as XML markup, starting with koha-conf.xml, the apache2 site specific
> configs, the bib1 attributes definitions etc.
> 
> For things that are stored in MySQL, I take sql dumps at different point
> in time (which working) and store that. Whenever, I need to look at what
> changed, I run a diff between the respective SQL dumps. Not the most
> elegant approach, but it gets my job done. Also, the sql dumps allow me to
> revert to a specific configuration.
> 
> The things I dump out at are typically sysprefs, marc tag and structure
> tables, the categories, stopwords etc just to give an example..

Thank you for this input. Could you possibly share the script(s) dumping the 
data mentioned in your last paragraph for me to get started?

Cheers, Joh