Data stored on your server is usually more important and valuable than the server hardware on which it is stored. Keeping your server secure and your data safe is one of the top priorities of a system administrator. As much as we hope to avoid trouble such as hardware failures or malicious security breaches, we need to be prepared to fix the consequences of these problems. Making regular backups of your data is essential to recover from unforeseen disasters. You should also regularly test the backups you create to make sure they will actually allow you to recover data when you need it.
In this chapter, we will provide recipes that demonstrate how Webmin helps you keep a backup of the following things:
Data files on your server, such as the source code of your applications and data entered and uploaded by users. See Creating a backup of a selected directory.
Information stored in databases. See Backing up databases.
Configuration settings. See Backing up configuration files.
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