Glassfox wrote:

> My first question is: can backuppc make a backup of a system it is  
> running on itself? Or do I always need to have a second backup host  
> to make a backup of my Linux server?

A BackupPC server can backup itself just fine. Just make sure you  
exclude the backup pool, or you'll get into a backup loop.

> And my second question is: could I get a corrupt system backup if  
> the web applications and databases were not shut down during the  
> backup process?

Web applicaties are just static files, right? You can back them up  
safely. Consult the docs for your database software for backups. We  
let BackupPC run a script to create SQL dumps of all our databases  
before starting the backup. Backing up the live database files usually  
is not guaranteed to get you a consistent state.

Nils Breunese.

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