Add backup to Wordpress and the Linux box in general
I expect to use Retrospect Client to backup Linux - it will be interesting to see if SELinux causes me any particular difficulties. Nope, it didn’t.
Installed the 7.5 client, but I can not see it from my Mac. Probably an iptables issue. Nice to see that man retroclient provides some info.
Retrospect tries to connect to the retrospect client TCP port 497
/sbin/iptables -I RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -p tcp --destination-port 497 -j ACCEPT
/sbin/iptables -I RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -p udp --destination-port 497 -j ACCEPT
Not sure which one did the trick, but Retrospect can now see the client.
Looks like I’m able to back up my Linux box now. Of course it is only really useful if I prove to myself that I can recover necessary data.
As for backing up WordPress, I need to take care to do it correctly. One can not just copy files in an active database or the data could be out of sync. Now there are some directions at the WordPress site, which look pretty good. But I think I’d prefer to do a backup that works for any mysql db - see Database Backups.