Add docs note about database backups

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Oliver Gorwits
2014-08-08 21:13:13 +01:00
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* Process tree updated to show daemon worker status/activity
* Handle management IP of one device being in use on another device
* Log at debug the vlan reindexing in macsuck
* Add docs note about database backups
[BUG FIXES]

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DANCER_DEBUG=1 ~/bin/netdisco-web restart
=head2 Database Backups
We recommend you backup the Netdisco database regularly. You could put the
following commands into a shell script and call it nightly from C<cron>:
DATE=`date +%Y%m%d`
/usr/bin/pg_dump -F p --create -f /path/to/backups/netdisco-pgsql-$DATE.dump netdisco
gzip -9f /path/to/backups/netdisco-pgsql-$DATE.dump
/usr/bin/find /path/to/backups/ -type f -ctime +30 -exec rm {} \;
This will keep 30 days of backups. You don't need to stop Netdisco during the
backup.
=head1 Further Reading...
Other ways to run and host the web application can be found in the