[Cialug] rootkit

David Champion cialug@cialug.org
Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:03:25 -0600


That's a lot of stuff.

You might be better off to use ftp or rsync to backup to another box.

-dc

admin wrote:
> there a limit on how big of a file i can make with that? /var/www/html =
> 36.6GB 72,579 files 4,080 folders
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Champion <dave@visionary.com>
> To: cialug@cialug.org
> Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 12:11:15 -0600
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] rootkit
> 
> 
>>admin wrote:
>>
>>>yea. just wish i was confident enough that i could backup my
>>
>>websites,
>>
>>>databases, etc. looks like its back to day 1.
>>
>>Shouldn't be too hard. To get the web sites:
>>
>>tar -czvf web_backup.tgz /var/www/html
>>
>>If you're using mysql, to backup the databases:
>>
>>mysqldump -u root -p > mydata.dump
>>
>>-dc