Backup ZM settings
Posted: Fri Jun 21, 2013 10:53 pm
Hello there,
I've set up a ZM server to see how it works and get more familiar with it. I've tweaked several settings for each camera as well as more general settings that affect all cams, mostly by trial and error and reading stuff on the internet.
So far I'm quite happy with my setup but as my whole installation was meant to only be temporary and last at most a few months, I'll need to reinstall a complete system along with ZM on a new and dedicated machine soon.
Since I spent a fair amount of time to eventually get something functional, balanced between a low enough CPU load but still providing satisfying picture quality (bandwidth come into play too whenever I want to view cams remotely, as I have an upload speed of only 1 Mb/s), I wonder how I could backup everything that is specific to ZM? (I don't care about events/alerts, I can discard them as it was only for experimental purposes so far).
Apparently from what I've understood, many settings are stored in the MySQL database, but perhaps someone could be a bit more specific about that? (like the databases' names, etc ) (I'm rather a newbie regarding linux and databases - especially exporting or importing DB - in general)
Also is there any other config file that is not saved in the MySQL database? When I perform a locate/find command, I retrieve many files with either 'zm' or 'ZoneMinder' in many different folders but I'm not sure how much they are relevant for a backup!? (and anyways it doesn't seem like a good way to perform a backup, but at least I tried something :p)
If you need further details, do not hesitate to ask me.
Any input will be greatly appreciated, thank you !
I've set up a ZM server to see how it works and get more familiar with it. I've tweaked several settings for each camera as well as more general settings that affect all cams, mostly by trial and error and reading stuff on the internet.
So far I'm quite happy with my setup but as my whole installation was meant to only be temporary and last at most a few months, I'll need to reinstall a complete system along with ZM on a new and dedicated machine soon.
Since I spent a fair amount of time to eventually get something functional, balanced between a low enough CPU load but still providing satisfying picture quality (bandwidth come into play too whenever I want to view cams remotely, as I have an upload speed of only 1 Mb/s), I wonder how I could backup everything that is specific to ZM? (I don't care about events/alerts, I can discard them as it was only for experimental purposes so far).
Apparently from what I've understood, many settings are stored in the MySQL database, but perhaps someone could be a bit more specific about that? (like the databases' names, etc ) (I'm rather a newbie regarding linux and databases - especially exporting or importing DB - in general)
Also is there any other config file that is not saved in the MySQL database? When I perform a locate/find command, I retrieve many files with either 'zm' or 'ZoneMinder' in many different folders but I'm not sure how much they are relevant for a backup!? (and anyways it doesn't seem like a good way to perform a backup, but at least I tried something :p)
If you need further details, do not hesitate to ask me.
Any input will be greatly appreciated, thank you !