Hello all,

I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this question, but I couln't find a forum for server management.

I am running a Boinc server on my company's intranet, and I wanted to know how to backup my project. My guess is that I have to save the content of the ~/Boinc/projects/my project/ folder, but I guess that I also need to backup the MySql database (or some tables on it)? How?

Also, if I have a backup of my project. What will it take to put it on another server? Do I create a project and then replace its content with my backup? How do I import the MySql tables?

Thank you in advance for your time.

Best regards,
Patricio Vidal.

Yes, copy the project directory, and the database.

For the database you can make a copy of the files (check /etc/my.cnf for the location of datadir, possibly /var/lib/mysql), but there are also ways to backup the database using mysql. That's something you might want to read up on at mysql.com, or a book on mysql (there are several).

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-- Eric Myers

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." -- William Butler Yeats

Hello Eric,

Thank you for your answer. Based on your answer I did a little search about backing up the mysql database and found this link (http://boinc.berkeley.edu/mysql_backup.txt) that showed how the SETI project do it.

Regards,
Patricio.