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What is the best way to backup Nagios xi without shutting it down?

Also it doesnt seem as if the daily weekly monthly backups or my nagios ix is runnin' .
what do I have to do to get it running?
we changed the sql password, but everything else is the default.

If you changed the mysql password, you should edit the "/root/scripts/automysqlbackup" file. Modify the line that says:
by replacing the default password with the new one.

Here is our documentation on backing up Nagios xi:

http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... ing_xi.pdf

Hope this helps.

thanks ! could you tell me how to start the script that will do the D W M backs that nagios uses or is this the one?

If I change the following line to =yes, is there anything else I will have to add to the script?
where will nagios create the folder?

# Additionally keep a copy of the most recent backup in a seperate directory.
LATEST=no

I believe all you need to do is to change:
to

# LATEST is to store an additional copy of the latest backup to a standard
# location so it can be downloaded bt thrid party scripts.

After the backup script is run, you should have "latest" added to the standard location (/store/backups/mysql/) you should have "latest" added. (Currently you should have "daily", "monthly", and "weekly").

thank you!

You are welcome!