Backup and Restore of Men & Mice Central on Unix Systems

Backup

Stop the Men & Mice Central service, using the init script or use the appropriate systemd, service command depending on your Linux distribution, examples:

sudo /etc/init.d/mmcentral stop

(or e.g. RedHat6)

sudo service mmcentral stop

(or e.g. RedHat7)

sudo systemctl stop mmcentral

Back up the directory

/var/mmsuite/mmcentral

in version 5.6 and above,

/var/qdns/qdnscentral

in 5.1. For example, to create an archive in your home folder on the server:

In 5.6 and above

sudo tar czC /var/mmsuite -f ~/central.tgz mmcentral

In 5.1

sudo tar czC /var/qdns -f ~/central.tgz qdnscentral

Then start the service again:

sudo /etc/init.d/mmcentral start

Restoring

Stop the service as outlined above. Then restore the data directory. If you followed the instructions above exactly, you can use this shell command:

In 5.6 and above

sudo tar xzC /var/mmsuite -f ~/central.tgz

In 5.1

sudo tar xzC /var/qdns -f ~/central.tgz

Then start up the service again, as outlined in the Backing Up section above.

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