Backups
Once you have your Zabbix server up and running, it's important to back up your Zabbix configuration in case you should run into problems. In this topic, we will cover what we need to backup and how to do it. While it's not really a recipe on how to backup as each Zabbix set up is different and not everybody uses MySQL or PostgreSQL, we will show you how to run your backups.
Getting ready
For this recipe to work, all we need is a working Zabbix server with a MySQL database.
How to do it...
In the crontab of your server, add the following line:
1 0 * * * mysqldump -u <user> -p<password> <zabbixdb> > /backup/zabbix_db_backup
How it works…
This recipe showed a basic backup of the MySQL database of our Zabbix server. When we backup Zabbix, it depends ...
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