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Webmin Administrator's Cookbook

You're reading from  Webmin Administrator's Cookbook

Product type Book
Published in Mar 2014
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781849515849
Pages 376 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Michal Karzynski Michal Karzynski
Profile icon Michal Karzynski

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Webmin Administrator's Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Setting Up Your System 2. User Management 3. Securing Your System 4. Controlling Your System 5. Monitoring Your System 6. Managing Files on Your System 7. Backing Up Your System 8. Running an Apache Web Server 9. Running a MySQL Database Server 10. Running a PostgreSQL Database Server 11. Running Web Applications 12. Setting Up an E-mail Server Index

Creating a backup of your database


Webmin can help you make backups of your MySQL databases. With just a few clicks, you can make a backup of any database. Webmin can also help you set up cron jobs to create backups automatically on a regular schedule.

Getting ready

Before starting, create a directory to store local backup files. You can keep these files in /backups in the root directory /root/backups, or in any location that you find convenient.

Tip

Backup files created by Webmin will be readable by all users of your system. This may be a security risk, since database backups often contain sensitive data such as hashed user passwords. You should remove all permissions on the backups directory for users outside of root's group. You can do that by issuing the following command:

$ sudo chmod o-rwx /backups

If your file system supports access control lists, you can additionally set the default mask for newly created files in this directory in such a way that they are not readable by users outside...

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