The backup procedure above is probably the recommended method, but I've just been backing up the whole dir....then moving it over to the fresh build.
I have zenoss stack installed, which defaults to /usr/local/zenoss. So as root, I just /etc/init.d/zenoss-stack stop. Then I do a "ps aux | grep zenoss" to make sure every is shut down...as well as a "ps aux |grep mysql" to make SURE that mysql is shut down. If you do this while mysql is running, bad things could happen. If you super paranoid you could sudo to the zenoss user and do a "mysqldump --all-databases | gzip > /usr/local/zenoss/mysql-backup.dmp.gz". After you're sure nothing zenoss related is running....as root "cd /usr/local/zenoss". Then "tar -czf /root/zenoss_backup.tar.gz *". Then you're free to copy the tar file to another server and wipe your current server. When you've rebuilt the server, install the same version of zenoss but don't start it up. Copy the tar.gz to /root. Then "cp -a /usr/local/zenoss /usr/local/zenoss.ORIG". Then "cd /usr/local/zenoss". Then "tar -xzf /root/zenoss_backup.tar.gz". And then start it up. "/etc/init.d/zenoss-stack start". However, if someone can confirm that the backup procedure built into zenoss is complete, then I'd much rather do it that way as it seems much easier. -------------------- m2f -------------------- Read this topic online here: http://community.zenoss.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=21499#21499 -------------------- m2f -------------------- _______________________________________________ zenoss-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users
