[Koha] Automated backups

[Greg Ashe]

Thanks for all the suggestions.

I have got rsync & cron working locally and remotely for data and used
Clonezilla to take a full system image (and restored it in a few minutes to
identical hardware).

Greg

On 19 March 2015 at 20:16, Chrispin Simasiku Sitali <libsitali at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I am happy with Remastersys and Webmin
>
> On 19 March 2015 at 13:21, Indranil Das Gupta <indradg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 3:33 PM, Greg Ashe <gpa at glenstal.org> wrote:
>> > What are people using for automated backups for (a) entire system image
>> (b)
>> > Koha data?
>>
>> I use the following recipe:
>>
>> 1/ Full system image (usually one time, and/or refreshed after a
>> apt-get upgrade or dist-upgrade) using redobackup for offline backup
>> on DVD / external USB.
>>
>> 2/ rsync based incremental backups - takes care of (a) the important
>> directories that I want backed up (b) the koha data dumps generated
>> via koha-run-backups. Both (a) and (b) being cron driven.
>>
>> hope that helps
>>
>> cheers
>>
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