Linux Tutorials on the topic “backup”

• How To Back Up MySQL Databases With mylvmbackup On Ubuntu 8.10

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: backup, mysql, ubuntu • Comments: 2

  How To Back Up MySQL Databases With mylvmbackup On Ubuntu 8.10 mylvmbackup is a Perl script for quickly creating MySQL backups. It uses LVM's snapshot feature to do so. To perform a backup, mylvmbackup obtains a read lock on all tables and flushes all server caches to disk, creates a snapshot of the volume containing the MySQL data directory, and unlocks the tables again. This article shows how to use it on an Ubuntu 8.10 server.

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• ZRM 2.1: Backing Up MySQL Partitioned Tables

  Author: paddy • Tags: mysql, backup, centos • Comments: 2

  ZRM 2.1: Backing Up MySQL Partitioned Tables MySQL 5.1 is generally available for production use. One of the key features of MySQL 5.1 is partitioning. This how to shows how to install and configure Zmanda Recovery Manager for MySQL (ZRM) 2.1 to perform backup and recovery of MySQL partitioned tables.

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• Back Up/Restore Hard Drives And Partitions With CloneZilla Live

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: backup • Comments: 6

  Back Up/Restore Hard Drives And Partitions With CloneZilla Live This tutorial shows how you can back up and restore hard drives and partitions with CloneZilla Live. CloneZilla Live is a Linux Live-CD that you insert into your computer; it contains hard disk and partition imaging and cloning tools similar to Norton Ghost. The created images are compressed and can be transferred to a Samba-, SSH-, or NFS server or to a local hard drive or USB drive.

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• Shell Script To Back Up All MySQL Databases, Each Table In An Individual File And Upload To Remote FTP

  Author: marchost • Tags: mysql, backup • Comments: 10

  Shell Script To Back Up All MySQL Databases, Each Table In An Individual File And Upload To Remote FTP This script will create a backup of each table in every database (one file per table), compress it and upload it to a remote ftp.

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• The Umlaut Problem - How To Successfully Back Up And Restore MySQL Databases With Special Characters Using MySQLDumper

  Author: Been Told • Tags: mysql, backup • Comments: 2

  The Umlaut Problem - How To Successfully Back Up And Restore MySQL Databases With Special Characters Using MySQLDumper There are lots of forums with heaps of reports of umlauts or other special characters being displayed erroneously. Attempts to help come from many sides, but hardly anyone seems to have a really complete picture of the problem. Even web hosts' support hotlines seem to reach their limit of knowledge with this one. There are incredible amounts of half-truths. They prove correct in certain circumstances, but they do not help all people. Simply because setups vary so much. In my role as developer of MySQLDumper I naturally spent a lot of time evaluating this situation. And I now believe to be able to offer a complete overview which covers the different aspects of this problem. A lot, and I mean a lot of research has gone into the explanations in this article.

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• How To Back Up An Ubuntu 8.10 System With SystemImager

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: backup, ubuntu • Comments: 6

  How To Back Up An Ubuntu 8.10 System With SystemImager SystemImager lets you create images of your Linux installations. To do so, you need an image server (should have enough disk space to store your images) and a so-called golden client (i.e., the system of which you want to make an image). This means that you have to install some software on your image server and on your golden client in order to run SystemImager. This tutorial shows how to install a SystemImager server and a SystemImager client, both using Ubuntu 8.10, and how to create/update/restore/delete images.

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• Creating MySQL Backups With AutoMySQLBackup

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: mysql, backup • Comments: 9

  Creating MySQL Backups With AutoMySQLBackup AutoMySQLBackup is a shell script that lets you take daily, weekly and monthly backups of your MySQL databases using mysqldump. It can back up multiple databases, compress the backups, back up remote databases, and email the logs.

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• Create Incremental Snapshot-style Backups With rSync And SSH

  Author: sjau • Tags: backup • Comments: 26

  Create Incremental Snapshot-style Backups With rSync And SSHAs neither human nor computers are perfect (humans err / computers may fail) it is quite obvious that a good backup system will prevent from too much damage once the computer may go down. This could be either because the harddrive is failing or because of hackers or because you accidentally deleted something important.In this tutorial I will show you how to automate backups automatically in an incremental snapshot-style way by using rSync.

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• Back Up Your Files With Areca On Fedora 9

  Author: o.meyer • Tags: backup, desktop, fedora • Comments: 0

  Back Up Your Files With Areca On Fedora 9 Areca is a personal file backup software developed in Java. It allows you to select files or directories to backup, filter, encrypt and compress their content, and store them on your backup location. Areca supports incremental backups and generates backup reports, which can be stored on your disk or sent by email. This guide explains how to install and use it on a Fedora 9 desktop (GNOME).

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• Scheduled Backups With Rsyncbackup On Debian Etch

  Author: o.meyer • Tags: backup, debian • Comments: 1

  Scheduled Backups With Rsyncbackup On Debian Etch This document describes how to set up and configure rsyncbackup on Debian Etch. Rsyncbackup is a Perl script that cooperates with rsync. It's easy to configure and able to create scheduled backups (partial and incremental backups).

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