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Chapter 8. Backup and Recovery"
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<a name="automated-backup" id="automated-backup"></a>Automated Backup</h2></div></div></div><p>The recommended backup strategy for a production sit is to use
an automated script which first backs up the database to a file in
<code class="filename">/var/lib/aolserver/<span class="replaceable"><span class="replaceable">$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME</span></span>/database-backup</code>
and then backs up all of <code class="filename">/var/lib/aolserver/<span class="replaceable"><span class="replaceable">$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME</span></span>
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to a single zip file, and then copies that zip file to another
computer.</p><div class="orderedlist"><ol class="orderedlist" type="1">
<li class="listitem"><p>Make sure that the manual backup process described above
works.</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Customize the default backup script. Edit <code class="filename">/var/lib/aolserver/<span class="replaceable"><span class="replaceable">$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME</span></span>/etc/backup.sh</code>
with your specific parameters.</p></li><li class="listitem">
<p>Make sure the file is executable:</p><pre class="programlisting">
chmod +x backup.sh
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<p>Set this file to run automatically by adding a line to
root's crontab. (Typically, with <code class="computeroutput">export EDITOR=emacs; crontab -e</code>.) This
example runs the backup script at 1:30 am every day.</p><pre class="programlisting">
30 1 * * * sh /var/lib/aolserver/<span class="replaceable"><span class="replaceable">$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME</span></span>/etc/backup.sh
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