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2 BACK UP THE EXISTING ZABBIX DATABASE
This is a very important step. Make sure that you have a backup of your database. It will help if the upgrade procedure fails (lack of disk space, power off, any unexpected problem).
This is such an important step, and yet there is no guidance on how which makes it easy to gloss over!
Perhaps an example could be written in here such as:
If using MySQL, then your command could look like this:
mysqldump -u [username] –p[password] [database_name] > /path/to/[database_name].sql
2 BACK UP THE EXISTING ZABBIX DATABASE
This is a very important step. Make sure that you have a backup of your database. It will help if the upgrade procedure fails (lack of disk space, power off, any unexpected problem).
This is such an important step, and yet there is no guidance on how which makes it easy to gloss over!
Perhaps an example could be written in here such as:
If using MySQL, then your command could look like this:
mysqldump -u [username] –p[password] [database_name] > /path/to/[database_name].sql