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## Automated Backup

The recommended backup strategy for a production sit is to use an automated script which first backs up the database to a file in `/var/lib/aolserver/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME/database-backup` and then backs up all of `/var/lib/aolserver/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME` to a single zip file, and then copies that zip file to another computer.

1. Make sure that the manual backup process described above works.

2. Customize the default backup script. Edit `/var/lib/aolserver/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME/etc/backup.sh` with your specific parameters.

3. Make sure the file is executable:

       chmod +x backup.sh

4. Set this file to run automatically by adding a line to root's crontab. (Typically, with `export EDITOR=emacs; crontab -e`.) This example runs the backup script at 1:30 am every day.

       30 1 * * *        sh /var/lib/aolserver/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME/etc/backup.sh

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