Blogs of the House of LAN
Backup your LAMP
Continuing with the backup theme of my last post, I've needed to back up our local LAMP server because its starting to hold some important data. Maybe I'm getting paranoid because of my first hard drive failure in 10 years (the last one was a 2GB HDD that got progressively larger areas of dead sectors, so it was a nice gradual death). Maybe I've just been taught a lesson and am starting to do what I always should have done anyway. In any case, here is the little script I wrote:
Backups are go
My Zimbra server's hard drive burnt out the other week while I was on holiday in Nelson. Crap no backups! Luckily I had only recently downgraded from my Network Edition trial to the Open Source edition, which involved backing up the old install. Hence how my Zimbra on Ubuntu tutorial came about.