====== Making a backup ======

===== Tips =====

  * Everytime that a configuration file is edited, make a symlink to it from a configuration backup directory. 
  * Backup the configuration backup directory, your homes, /usr/local, /var, using rdiff-backup. Check for /opt and /srv . 

===== Using netcat (nc) =====

==== Making a backup ====

  * In client:

  cat /dev/yourharddrive | nc server_ip server_port

  * In server:

  nc -l -p port | tar -xzf backup_file.tar.gz


==== Restoring the backup ====

  * In client:

  nc -l -p 6666 | zcat > /dev/your_harddrive

  * In server:

  nc -q 1 ip_client_machine 6666< imagefile.img.gz


====== Procedure to recover from your backup ======

===== apache =====

  * Install apache2. Configure normal.
  * Install files for dokuwiki, homes and wordpress in /etc/apache2/sites-available
  * Make the corresponding symlinks to sites-enable
  * Recover sites-available/default file

===== dokuwiki =====

  * Install dokuwiki from debian
  * Recover all /var/lib/dokuwiki/ back
  * Recover /etc/dokuwiki/local.php and users.auth.php or something like this.
  * Recover the plugins to /usr/share/dokuwiki/lib/plugins  . Just copy them there. (It's really only necessary to install translation2 plugin. Which doesn't need any other special configuration. 

===== Wordpress =====

  * Install wordpress normally
  * Recover the themes and plugins into /usr/share/wordpress/wp-content/
  * Recover config-blog.memelabs.net.php file to /etc/wordpress/

===== MySQL =====
 
  * Use the same root password during debian installation than the one from old database
  * Stop mysql-server 
  * Restore mysql original complete database. For some reason if I only restore wordpress database I get a Error establishing a database connection error. Also, if I restore from mysql client I still get inconsistency errors in the database. I had to recover the whole /var/lib/mysql directory
  * Restore from the backup /etc/mysql/debian.cnf
  * Restart mysql-server twice (second time, you should not get an error)