Backups

[elikatz79]

Hello all,

We are running Zabbox 4.0.10 on CentOS, we have a daily mysqldump backup for the database and were wondering if there is a need to also backup conf files (or any other file for that matter) - if so, which files should we backup?
Thanks!
Eli

[Atsushi]

You should also back up the configuration file. If the environment was built using Zabbix standard package, the configuration file and monitoring script should be saved in the following directory.

/etc/zabbix
/usr/lib/zabbix

If you are calling your own extensions or scripts, back them up as well.

[elikatz79]

Perfect, thank you!
I wrote a simple script for this task:

#!/bin/bash

TODAY=$(date +%Y-%m-%d)

FILENAME="PLTMON01_configs_backup_$TODAY.tar.gz"

LOGFILE="/var/log/zabbix_configs_backup.log"

SRCDIR1=/etc/zabbix
SRCDIR2=/usr/lib/zabbix
DESDIR=/backups/configs
tar -cpzf $DESDIR/$FILENAME $SRCDIR1 $SRCDIR2