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Database backup script

Database backup script

by Peter Staab -
Number of replies: 1

I'm managing a local server on our campus that has virtualization and daily snapshots are taken.  However, we've had a couple of issues that we've had to roll back older snapshots and lost the data in a database. 

I'm wondering if others have an automated backup script for the webwork database and how you manage it (cron job or something else). I can probably write one, but it would be nice to see what others have done.

In reply to Peter Staab

Re: Database backup script

by Danny Glin -
I posted some directions at https://webwork.maa.org/wiki/Backup_and_Disaster_Recovery. When I get a second I will clean those up to point to a standalone config file rather than .my.cnf.