[LON-CAPA-admin] Proper back-up procedure

[Guy Albertelli II]

Hi Lars,

> We have set up a nightly network back-up procedure of lon-capa. Basically all 
> we do is to tar up the lonUsers- and res/tmcc directories. My question is
> this:
> 
> Is this a safe procedure?

I believe so, the GDBM files If they are being written to are locked
by the filesystem.

> What happens if someone is accessing/editing
> records while the tar job is processing? Strictly speaking, doesn't 
> the mysql database have to be locked during a back-up?

If you are backing up only the above directories you aren't backing up
the MySQL database.

This is fine as no real data is stored in the MySQL database.


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guy at albertelli.com  LON-CAPA Developer  0-7-5-6-