Nagios VM

[Andreas Ericsson]

Tim Van Caeyzeele wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
> 

Hi. Please don't top-post. It makes it terribly difficult to follow
the flow of a multiple-question/answer email.

> Thanks for your feedback.
> 
> Offcourse I'm not using the vmware setup to monitor itself ;) It was
> monitoring the complete network.

Well, the VMWare server is probably part of that network, so... But
anyways.

> 
> It's rebuilt for 98% which brings me to the part of decent
> backups...I'm not a linux wizz at all! Would you have some good
> recommandations for backing up my system in a simple way so I can
> rebuilt it after a crash ? Would a ghost image work (just for the OS
> and plugins) combined with periodical copies of the cfg files ?
> 

To make a decent backup of Nagios you need to keep configuration files,
logfiles and all the .sav files under the var directory of your nagios
installation. The software itself is easy to restore, so it's not so
important to back that up.

You only need the logs if you want to be able to get reports out of
Nagios after a crash, btw.

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Tel: +46 8-230225                  Fax: +46 8-230231

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace.
It's the best place to buy or sell services for
just about anything Open Source.
http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php
_______________________________________________
Nagios-users mailing list
Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users
::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. 
::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null