How to backup FOP2?

[itdept2015]

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