The recommended backup strategy for a production sit is to use
an automated script which first backs up the database to a file in
/var/lib/aolserver/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME/database-backup
and then backs up all of /var/lib/aolserver/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME
to a single zip file, and then copies that zip file to another
computer.
Make sure that the manual backup process described above works.
Customize the default backup script. Edit
/var/lib/aolserver/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME/etc/backup.shwith your specific parameters.-
Make sure the file is executable:
chmod +x backup.sh
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Set this file to run automatically by adding a line to root's crontab. (Typically, with
export EDITOR=emacs; crontab -e.) This example runs the backup script at 1:30 am every day.30 1 * * * sh /var/lib/aolserver/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME/etc/backup.sh
