Hi Tom

Thanks for the quick and helpful response. I’ll go with backing up the entire directory. On a semi-related note, is there a way of being notified by email when there is an update available as it seems we are manually doing the svn update at the moment.

Kind regards,

Mahomed Hussein

Custodian DataCentre

email: Mahomed@CustodianDC.com

From: observium-bounces@observium.org [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Tom Laermans
Sent: 15 October 2012 12:46
To: Observium Network Observation System
Subject: Re: [Observium] Backing Up Observium

Hi Mahomed,

Observium stores its data in 2 places:

- rrd directory (usually /opt/observium/rrd)
- mysql database

If you back up those 2, you should have a backup.

If you're not running the latest version, take note of the revision number, and check out that version from svn upon restore (or, alternatively, as you said, back up the entire source directory instead).

You should then after installing the necessary dependencies have a working installation again.

Tom

On 15/10/2012 13:35, Mahomed Hussein wrote:

Hi

I need to ensure our install of Observium is fully backed up and I’d rather not backup the entire VM. Could you please confirm if all I need to backup are:

·         /opt/observium directory
·         Observium database
·         /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default

What I’d like to achieve from the backups is to spin up a new VM instance, run through the install steps to get the required components installed, then restore the files so that Observium then just runs as it was at the point of the last backup. I have tried checking the FAQ and a search of the mailing list but I couldn’t find any specific instructions.

Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Kind regards,

Mahomed Hussein
Custodian DataCentre
email: Mahomed@CustodianDC.com
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