Topic: Backup just IMP?

[rk]

I am going to try install 5.0 on my server.  I have decided that since most of the stuff on my machine is garbage, I will just blow the machine away and start over.  The only thing I really want to keep around is all the information in IMP (folders, data, contacts).  Can someone list all of the paths to the data for IMP?  I am afraid that I will miss some.

Related to this:  Is there a way to use flexbackup program to back up to an IDE hard drive or even an NFS mount instead of tape?  I have an old drive kicking around that I would like to use.

Any info would be helpful.

rk

[Rich Lafferty]

Once this workaround is applied:

http://www.e-smith.org/bugs/index.php3?op=showBug&bugID=51

then the IMP data will be backed up in a desktop or tape backup.

  -Rich

[rk]

I don't have a tape attached to this machine.  All of the backup solutions I have seen require a tape drive.  If it's possible to backup to another drive, or back to the drive itself for ftp-ing to another machine, that would be ideal.

For IMP, I want to just extract the info, or back up the entire database, and copy it to another machine for safe keeping.

[rk]

Sorry, missed the 'Backup to Desktop' part.  I must have had a brain-fart.

rk

[Rich Lafferty]

Perhaps you've confused desktop backups and tape backups? Desktop
backups work through the server-manager, and back up a minimum
amount of stuff, just so you can recreate network configuration
and users and ibays and so forth later. One thing they back up is
the MySQL databases.

If you don't want the whole desktop backup, you could do the
backup, throw away the resulting file, put
/home/e-smith/db/mysql/mysql.dump in a safe place, reinstall,
and then restore the mysql databases by running mysql with
the mysql.dump file (it's SQL).

  -Rich

[rk]

Can the desktop backup be initiated from the command line?  If so, how?

rk

[Des Dougan]

Have a look at this HOWTO:

http://www.e-smith.org/docs/howto/contrib/flexbackup-to-disk-howto.htm

From your posting, this may be what you want.


Des Dougan