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MediaWiki. Layout. Control. Templates. Ubuntu. Backup Utilities: How to Back Up Your Web Server. When backing up a live system with any technique, getting a consistent backup can be a pain as data can change during the backup process.

Backup Utilities: How to Back Up Your Web Server

This particularly becomes a problem with apps like Gallery which modify both the database and the filesystem on updates, or apps that connect to more than one database. To get a consistent backup you need to stop the database and FTP servers (and stop new SCP transfers) during the backup process. For a live server this is a killer, but there is a way to minimise the downtime.

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