[UKFSN Status] Database backup on web server

Jason Clifford jason at ukfsn.org
Thu May 29 22:04:41 BST 2008


I have implemented a new system on our web server to automatically
create a backup of all customer databases via mysqldump. 

The backup will be run at 2.30am each day.

You can find the backup file for your database in the ~/dbbackup/
directory in your webspace. It is not visible via your website for
security reasons.

I recommend that customers download the database backup regularly. This
can be done via FTP, SFTP or rsync (over SSH).

To download via rsync run the following command:

rsync -e ssh -a username at www.username.ukfsn.org:~/dbbackup/* .

making sure to replace username with your UKFSN account username.

Jason Clifford
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UK Free Software Network
http://www.ukfsn.org/



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