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allan grossman · #39 07-11-2003, 10:46 AM

My backup strategy - this runs as a daily cron job.

My web root and the databases are on /usr not /var - and /usr is on a 40g IDE drive. The rest of the system is on a 10k rpm SCSI drive. No reason for the web content to be faster than my internet connection

I get one copy of the backup on each spindle and then manually copy one of the backups to a different machine once a week or so. I guess I could automate that if I wanted to.

#!/bin/sh

service httpd stop

mysqldump -uusername -ppassword -c vb_bassforum > /usr/www/archive/vb_bassforum.sql.dump
mysqldump -uusername -ppassword -c pointbeing > /usr/www/archive/pointbeing.sql.dump
mysqldump -uusername -ppassword -c hcbf > /usr/www/archive/hcbf.sql.dump

service httpd start

cp /var/spool/mail/* /usr/www/archive/mail

#change dump permissions so I can restore databases from remote with phpMyAdmin if I need to.

chown wizard /usr/www/archive/*.dump
chgrp apache /usr/www/archive/*.dump
chmod 660 /usr/www/archive/*.dump

tar cf /archive/backup.tar /usr/www/*

cp /archive/* /usr/archive

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