Back up solutions (Moodle)

[hargi]

I am going to become responsible for backing up the colleges Moodel server.
Some of the other places have sugested using Shadow Copy as part of the solution. But I will be running this on a Linux platform, is there anything similar to shadow copy for linux.

The SQL data is backed up in 2 ways…

Shadow Copy again backs up all the RAW data files… basically all the files MySQL uses etc. I also use MySQL Administrator (a free piece of software which is really useful) to run automated backups of the whole Moodle database once a night which produces a text .sql files which is in turn backed up by Shadow Copy.

The MySQL Administrator shoule have no problem been on linux?

Then would you back this up to tape or a buffalo station?

 

[BoomAM]

I'd look into Rcopy?
I think you can run it from the command line in a telnet session and set a cron job.
At least, thats whats recommended as a backup solution for smoothwall...

 

[deano]

Lvm snap shot?

 

[Stolly]

I am going to become responsible for backing up the colleges Moodel server.
Some of the other places have sugested using Shadow Copy as part of the solution. But I will be running this on a Linux platform, is there anything similar to shadow copy for linux.


The MySQL Administrator shoule have no problem been on linux?

Then would you back this up to tape or a buffalo station?

Didn't know that MySQL ran on Windows but i trust this guy has actually done a restore and knows that Shadow Copy does in fact quiesce the database properly etc etc.

Because otherwise at best he's getting a crash consistent copy and at worst he's getting nothing useful.