[Koha] Backing up 3.0

[Nicole Engard]

Doug,

If you get an answer off-list, please send to me.  Everyone, just let
me know if this is right and if so I'll add it to the manual.

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On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Doug Dearden <dearden at sarsf.org> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I want to check to make sure I am backing up Koha correctly.  I looked
> at this reference:
>
> http://www.kohadocs.org/Backups_and_Restoring.html
>
> It refers to the file structure for an earlier version.  I couldn't
> find anything in the doc at
> https://sites.google.com/a/liblime.com/koha-manual/ , but maybe I am
> missing something there.  Here is what I came up with:
>
> Backup the database using:
>
> mysqldump --add-drop-table -u<dbusername> -p<dbpassword> koha >
> koha.sql
>
> I am running multiple databases, and am repeating the above for each
> unique database name.
>
> Backup all of the files in /usr/share/koha .
>
> Backup the extra config files in:
>
> /etc/koha
> /etc/apache2
> /etc/mysql/my.cnf
>
> I am also backing up these as I made changes to them - perhaps unique
> to my install:
>
> /etc/vsftpd.conf
> /etc/network
> /etc/hosts
>
> I am using cron to run several scripts that do the above, using tar
> -czf to create compressed files and the copying them to a remote
> location that also gets backed up to tape every day.
>
> As I write this, I am thinking I should add /usr/share/perl5 and
> /usr/share/perl to the list.
>
> Is there anything else needed that won't easily install from a Debian
> install?  My approach on this is to have a backup of all the unique
> items needed for Koha, so I can do a clean install of Debian with
> Apache2 and MySQL, then restore from the backups and go.  As there will
> be core items that change depending on the hardware config, I don't
> think I can just backup the entire debian file system and transfer it to
> a new machine.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Doug Dearden
> Director, Information Technology
> School for Advanced Research
> (formerly School of American Research)
> (505)954-7220
> www.sarweb.org
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