[Koha] Backing up 3.0

Anand Sharma anand at webodesk.com
Thu Jan 8 19:24:59 NZDT 2009


Mahesh T. Pai wrote:
> Ugh!!1 Apologies; I misposted.
>
> paivakil at gmail.com (Mahesh T. Pai) writes:
>
>  > "Doug Dearden" <dearden at sarsf.org> writes:
>  >
>  >  > I want to check to make sure I am backing up Koha correctly.  I looked
>  >  > at this reference:
>
> This is what I intended to ask:-
>
> What are pros and cons of making a backup of /var/lib/mysql/ ??
>
> What is there in /usr/share/koha/* to be backed up? I mean, if
> something here is corrupted / goes bad, would not a simple re-install
> of koha work? Further, if Koha stores user / login info here, is this
> not a violation of the Filesystem Standards? Should not such info go
> into some place under /var/ ??
>
>   
koha database backup is enough, no need of backing up usr/share/koha/* 
unless you have done any custom changes which is not there in default 
koha installation...

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