Backups and Restoring
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Understanding how to properly backup and restore your Koha installation is a critical step in administering Koha successfully. Not only are these skills needed in an emergency, such as a hard drive failure on your primary production machine, but they are also useful for when you update, upgrade, or anytime you plan to custom modify either the filesystem or the database.
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There are many ways to backup MySQL databases, or parts of databases. After reading this section I highly recommend reading the MySQL manual sections that discuss backing up and restoring data. You can find them online at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/index.html.
Perhaps the best way to backup your Koha database manually is the mysqldump application. To backup the whole database you can invoke it thusly:
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In addition to being useful in load balancing, replication can serve as a realtime backup for your Koha system. You will need to manually promote a slave to serve as master, and you will likely need to adjust your local configurations depending on how you have your systems setup, but having replication in place will probably ensure the fastest route to recovery from a complete system crash. See the replication section of the MySQL manual for more details.
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