How to backup FOP2?

I got my answer to this on the Live Chat, but wanted to make sure everyone has access to it:

What is the best method of backing up Fop2? I am using FreePBX 6.12 64bit distro (FreePBX 5.211.65, Asterisk 11 with CentOS 6.5). I notice I can use the FreePBX GUI / Admin / Backup & Restore to administer backups of any folder on the system, but will it work to just backup the
/usr/local/fop2/
folder?
fop2 settings are stored in tables in the asterisk database. That database is usually backed up by any backup module you might have already, then the actual files are
/usr/local/fop2
and
/var/www/html/fop2
. If you can add folders to your backup, you can add those, sure. Then the service script is another thing, as you have some files but also you must enable them as a service if you are restoring.

Then in disaster recovery I can do a fresh install of CentOS/FreePBX distro and just restore all of that, and it should work?
It is not enough just by copying files. The files are
/etc/rc.d/init.d/fop2
and
/etc/sysconfig/fop2
.
chkconfig
is the command to control the service. Add
/etc/rc.d/init.d/fop2
and
/etc/sysconfig/fop2
but then you will have to use
chkconfig --add fop2
to add the service in case you restore the files that way
or just download fop2, extract and run
make
to install over, the make install will run
chkconfig
for you
either way will work.

Final note... the license will probably fail on a new installation, so you will have to revoke/register
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