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It should go without saying that any production server that contains data important to users should have a backup strategy. These strategies vary from system to system and administrator to administrator, but often involve nightly backups to tape-storage and/or replication of hard-drive contents to another machine. This page is not meant as a tutorial on backups, but is merely an identification of where data critical to recovering Segue after a system failure may be found.
XML Site Backups provide a mechanism for recovering and restoring historical versions of sites in Segue, but they do not capture user, group, class, or other data required by Segue for operation and therefore should not be relied on as the only backup method of Segue data.
Critical Data items:
- user-files – the location of these is specified in Segue’s config.inc.php file.
- the Segue database – Please read the MySQL chapter on Disaster Prevention and Recovery
- config.inc.php – backing up this file can aid recovery time in the event that a system needs to be rebuilt or reconfigured.
Possible Backup Strategies:
If you are doing nightly backups of your server’s disk drive, then most likely all of the Segue data will be included as part this process. Please read the MySQL chapter on Disaster Prevention and Recovery for more information on ensuring consistant backups of your MySQL database.