Re: Backing up a centos serveR? how to ? Newbie question..

[John Doe <jdmls@xxxxxxxxx>]

From: RoLaNd RoLaNd <r_o_l_a_n_d@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>excuse my newbie question but how can i backup my centos server?
>i have a dozzen of virtual hosts over it as well as substantial database entries..
>i've backed up the following directories using rsync:
>workspace/
>/etc/httpd/
>/etc/apache-tomcat-6.0.20/
>/usr/lib/mysql/
>/var/lib/mysql

For mysql, I would use mysqldump instead of rsyncing the whole mysql directories...
Something like:
  mysqldump <DATABASE> | gzip -9 > <DATABASE>-<DATE>.gz

JD


      
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