[Koha] Backing up 3.0

[Doug Dearden]

Frederic,

I get what you and Joe are saying.  I am working now on getting a clean install done on an older piece of equipment, and will then try restoring the configs and databases.  I am not using the zebra indexing at this time so no concerns there.  I have run into a couple of issues during the install.  I will try and document them well and put in a report.

Best,

Doug

>>> Frederic Demians <frederic at tamil.fr> 12/18/2008 2:40:34 PM >>>

> Any thoughts on what files are essential to restore in the event of a 
> complete system crash?

I second Joe Atzberger analysis. Your backup policy must be adjusted on 
data update periodicity.

A good practice is to document backup AND restore. You must know and 
test by advance what you will have to do in case a restore is required. 
You may need a partial or a complete restore depending of situation: 
complete disk failure or just DB data corruption.

Don't forget that with Koha 3 indexes are built outside MySQL DB: in 
Zebra. You can't save Zebra indexes synchronically with MySQL DB. 
Hopefully, Zebra indexes can be rebuilt easily and almost quickly. You 
must know how to do it in a recover after crash scenario.

Other systems are also possible involving disk partitioning and mirroring.

-- 
Frédéric