On 17 September 2013 09:39, clint.deckard <[email protected]> wrote: > I am donating a server with Koha 3.12 on Debian 7 via packages for a school > in Vanuatu and would like suggestions for a simple backup strategy. > The 'server' will not actually be network connected, so it will be used as a > standalone workstation (at least to begin with). There will be no technical > support available. > My first thought was to use koha-run-backups and change the location to the > desktop of the user that will access Koha. With the thought they could drag > and drop the backup folder to a usb drive when needed. But it appears the > --location: argument does not work with koha-run-backups. > > Since I am a novice scripter I am reluctant to go this path for fear of > making a mess that I can't fix from thousands of KMs away. > Use ln -s to logically link that directory to the users home dir
eg sudo ln -s /var/spool/koha/<sitename> /home/<username>/backups Or something very similar to that, and then train them to copy the files to a usb drive on a regular basis. It's not exactly foolproof, because it relies on them remembering to do it. Chris _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org [email protected] http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
