On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 01:52:52PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Since Moodle stores it's data in MySQL or PostgreSQL, you'll have to > backup the whole database. I wouldn't recommend using rsync. > That should not just be a recommendation. When it comes to databases, you *must* properly dump the database contents to a backup file. With Postgres something like pg_dump or pg_dumpall is what you want. There are tradeoffs to each, so be sure and read up on them.
The point is that just copying the on-disk database cluster is *not* good enough, as it can result in a corrupted or inconsistent database. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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