Backup
A backup process is important for any software package. Let's say you have been running a Cacti server for one year. One day, you come into the office and find that your server hard drive has crashed. Now, you need to reinstall everything. Not only that, you have also lost all your old data. To save you from such a scenario, backup is your friend. I always recommend taking a full backup before upgrading. The Cacti backup process has two parts:
A backup process is important for any software package. Let's say you have been running a Cacti server for one year. One day, you come into the office and find that your server hard drive has crashed. Now, you need to reinstall everything. Not only that, you have also lost all your old data. To save you from such a scenario, backup is your friend. I always recommend taking a full backup before upgrading. The Cacti backup process has two parts:
File backup.
Database backup.
File backup
At the beginning of this chapter, you got the list of Cacti...