Cedeus DB backups

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How to set up Backups

notifications

To get notified about the backups via email, a/the shell script may send emails via "mailx" - i.e Nail. => see http://klenwell.com/press/2009/03/ubuntu-email-with-nail/

copy of the geonode DB

1. create a shell script that contains the pgdump instructions - see /home/ssteinig/geonode_backup.sh on CedeusDB
2. test if script actually works (using sudo?)
3. create a cron-tab entry for ssteinig user using "crontab -e"

   then add entry such as "00 01 * * * /home/ssteinig/pgdbbackup.sh" to run the script daily at 1:00 am

   => when using the user "postgres" then

   • check if postgres user has a password assigned already (use ALTER... to do so: http://wiki.geosteiniger.cl/mediawiki-1.22.7/index.php/Setting_up_geonode#Some_PostgreSQL_commands )
   • create a .pgpass file to provide the password: http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Pgpass

4. check also if the cron is running sudo service cron status otherwise start it...
5. to see what the cron tab contains use crontab -l