Backup of Hobbit data and config files
Hello,
Can someone tell me what directories / files that have to be backed up in order to save data and config files to prevent a crash ? Is it necessary to copy the whole data directory ? Currently, we have about 8 GB on the data directory (about 1500 hosts).
Are these existing automated solutions (nothing found on deadcat so far...) ?
I'd be glad to receive some tips/tricks on how you perform your own backups.
Thank you for your support.
Regards,
Pierre
Pierre Lardinois Int. ICT Infrastructure Team TI Automotive
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On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 11:53:47AM +0200, Lardinois, Pierre wrote:
Can someone tell me what directories / files that have to be backed up in order to save data and config files to prevent a crash ? Is it necessary to copy the whole data directory ? Currently, we have about 8 GB on the data directory (about 1500 hosts).
The data/ directory holds all of the monitoring data, so if you want to save everything, then yes - you will need to back up that entire directory.
However, most of those 8 GB are probably historical status-logs. Each time a status changes color, the current status log is saved in a file in the data/histlogs/ directory. Over time, that becomes a lot of files - and do you really need to know exactly what a disk status was 3 years ago? Maybe, but if you don't need that much data then you can use the "trimhistory" utility to trim the amount of data you keep.
Apart from the data/ directory, the server/etc/ directory should be backed up - this is all of the Hobbit configuration files.
If you have created notes for online documentation, you will also need to backup the server/www/notes/ directory.
If you have modified the header/footer templates, then add the server/web/ directory.
Regards, Henrik
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