Backups functioning...

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From now on the backups of the server are fully functional. Hardware failures To guard against hardware failures, I use mirroring on the server now with two disks and have third disk for backup. Every week or so one disk is removed from the array and replaced by the free disk. This way, I have a complete server backup. Accidents/software failures To guard against software failures and 'accidents' (accidentally removing files e.g.) I have implemented backups of the  server of parts of the directory structure. I use the 'dar' program for that. Every month, a full backup is made, and then every day of the month, an incremental backup is made (if no full backup was made). The backups are stored on the hard disk of the server. Of course, the mambo installation, configuration, and mysql databases for mambo are backed up. Mysql is backed up by first creating a database dump using mysqldump and then backing up the snapshot using the regular procedure.