[HOWTO] Take backups and restore (Scripts)

[luckenbach]

Since cacti is a MUST for me I needed to create a backup solution that would allow me to take a snapshot of cacti and its database roll it up into a nice neat bundle for safe keeping. I dug around on the forums and found a backup script that work okay but no restore So I made a few minor tweaks to the backup script and then created a restore script.

Things you will need

Lynx
mysqladmin
root password to the mysql database (this is only if you need to create a new db instance)
and a ".my.cnf" inside of roots home that has your cactiusers pw.

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[root@cacti scripts]# cat ~/.my.cnf 
[client]
user=cactiuser
password=putyourpwhere
[root@cacti scripts]#

and thats it!

Modify the top of each script with the proper vars and your good to starting taking backups

[gandalf]

Thanks for your contribution!
R.