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Redmine Cookbook

By : Shamasis Bhattacharya
Book Image

Redmine Cookbook

By: Shamasis Bhattacharya

Overview of this book

In a variety of online project management tools, Redmine markets itself as offering flexibility. Choosing the right management tool can mean the difference between the success and failure of a project. Flexible project management tools bend themselves to fit your needs, whether that’s communication regarding a simple project, or collaboration, or more complex project methodology such as SCRUM, or an issue-code relationship, or the need of different methodology for your project. Whether you are project manager or system administrator, this book provides valuable recipes to get the best possible performance out of your team, organization, infrastructure, and Redmine itself. Through a series of carefully crafted recipes covering the nitty-gritty of Redmine, you’ll be guided through the installation of Redmine, as well as how to fine-tune and customize your Redmine installation. Finally, we walk you through integrating Redmine with other softwares and databases like Tortoise SVN and Visual Studio and troubleshooting Redmine.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Redmine Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Configuring backup and recovery


There are multiple ways to perform a backup and recovery of your Redmine system. A good backup strategy should ensure that you can easily and quickly recover from the following:

  • Hardware failure or any other type of catastrophe

  • Compromised data

  • Compromised software code

This recipe provides only the basic manual backup technique of the complete Redmine directory and database. You can learn about the details of Redmine backup so that you can later easily configure any backup software of your choice to perform the backup for you or simply schedule these steps.

Getting ready

Prepare your backup and recovery strategy. Is it going to be a full backup, partial backup, saving deltas of last backup, or something else? Install any backup software if necessary, such as Bacula or Amanda.

How to do it…

To have a proper backup system, you would need to store backup files for a certain amount of time, which may vary, depending upon your backup strategy. This recipe teaches you...