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Got backup working...now to test it

So Its ok to have the script in cron.daily...just not a place fort the backups to reside (as of right now I have the backups 1 deeper below the cron.daily). So looking at the backup I posted last week...is that what is supposed to look like...why are others 8mb while mine is like 500 bytes? here is ...

My script set to run nightly....thanks for looking. Do I need to adjust this line....write now the compressed file are landing in the path I specified for last 3 days. in fact thats what there named with the time stamp so Im guessing thats ok. $ {BKUP_PATH}/Nightly_dB_Backup_${timestamp}.sql.gz #!/b...

mikb I did set the backup path to my cron.daily folder (whereis was used for my path) ....i sinced moved it deeper...but the contents of the cron.daily folder had been erased. this is the only thing I changed in the script besides mysql user and pass # Specify where the databases will be saved to BK...

I got it added to my crontab and is making backups
....but its like only 600 bytes...see above....is thats what it supposed to look like? (see in my last post)

Right now I have over 1Tb data and about 5700 events?
I understand its just the mysql, but user zmjm15 above said his file is like 9mb...

Well i finally got around to using knnnigget script mentioned above for backing up mysql. Since I dont know my way around (enough to be dangerous) that well...after some googling I ended up putting this script in etc/cron.daily. I then ran the script in this directory....and I believe it deleted all...

I have this problem also...I thought the problem was related to mysql (I even tried to tune it to no avail). The problem usually appears during/after viewing it remotely. I even tried turning down view settings and bitrate. I'm running 12.04 and am waiting for the 1.29 to be out of beta...maybe it w...

Thanks for this Knnniggett!

Im assuming the backup would not work if the ZM is upgraded...in other word i could not do fresh install of different version zm
(than was backed up with this script) then restore this backup into newer version of fresh install...

Will this Suggestion (bug) make the new version?

Its anoying to accidentally delete your archived events...PLEASE??

Oh another year...Happy new Year! ZM, and to all its Contributors

I Still screw up and delete events as well....PLEASE

This was the only write-up by bbunge that I could find related to mysql tuning http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.php/Enable_and_convert_MySQL_to_innodb_file_per_table_for_Zoneminder I have it installed now but havent done the above link. I also Increased my Apache2 RAM to 256mb from 128MB per a r...

BBunge posted this recently... I only needed to change my PATH_SWAP
Now I just need to figure out how to do the MySQL settings thing.


"If you have the memory you can put some of those functions on RAM disk such as:

PATH_MAP = /dev/shm

PATH_SWAP= /dev/shm"

I cant answer your question but I would think you would want to go with 14.04LTS over 12 since it has only 2 yrs support left and 14 has 4yrs.

I am hardly an expert....maybe an expert noob...and I had/have to do a lot of reading, I still reference everything I do in fear of screwing it up. I would just back it all up, and try from there....I know you want someone to chime in and give you all the info, but I think if its out there it would ...

I suggest u back it up (whole disk in case things dont work out)...and either just upgrade the ZM, or first find forums or help online that just talk about upgrading the OS unrelated to ZM. After you get your OS upgraded then Update ZM. From what I gather OS distro upgrades are not the way to go.......