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hugleo
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Are there a backup option or backup plugin to cacti?
Perhaps generate tar.gz file to configurations and graphs.
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Please see 1st link of my sig. The maintenance chapter tells you how to backup your mysql database. You may copy/rsync your rrd files if you want to backup them as well. Backing up graphs seems not a valid goal for me; you should backup rrd files instead. From those, you will be able to generate graphs
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gandalf wrote:You may copy/rsync your rrd files if you want to backup them as well.
Hey,

I was also looking for this.
What i do today, is from time to time taking a dump of the db, and copy the whole cacti folder.
But i think it would be a nice feature in the future to have a kind of auto backup system on board, no?
You know how lazy people are when you're talking about backups... :roll:
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We do provide some hints how to backup, see documentation which shows exact examples how to solve that problem. But we won't create a backup function for Cacti; there are enough backup options on OS level out there.
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