How to backup plone

There are config files and the Data.fs to back up with Plone.  One can use the following repozo script, in the bin folder, to backup the Data.fs to a directory of choice:

From http://wiki.zope.org/ZODB/FileStorageBackup

repozo -BvzQ -r /foo/backup -f /foo/Data.fs

-B tells repozo to do a backup. -v causes it to display messages about what it's doing. -z causes the backup files to be compressed, using gzip. -Q is an optimization using md5 checksums to skip large amounts of I/O; there is a vanishingly small chance that -Q will cause repozo to do a wrong thing, and you can omit -Q if that bothers you, at the cost of more I/O and longer runtime. -r and -f specify the backup directory and FileStorage to back up, respectively.

Data.fs can be in active use when you run repozo. repozo makes a read-only connection to the FileStorage, and backs up to the point of the most recent fully committed transaction at the time this connection is made.

repozo will make either a full backup or an incremental backup. You can force a full backup with the -F flag. Else repozo does a full backup only if necessary. For example, a full backup is necessary if this is the first time a backup has been made, or if the FileStorage has been packed since the last time a backup was made.

In the backup directory, repozo creates data files with names of the form YYYY-MM-DD-HH-MM-SS.$ext, where $ext is fsz for a compressed full backup, deltafsz for a compressed incremental backup, fs for an uncompressed full backup, or deltafs for an uncompressed incremental backup. It also creates, or appends to, a .dat file, which is an index containing metadata about the data files. The YYYY-MM-DD-HH-MM-SS part records the UTC (not local) time at which the backup was made.

repozo is also used to recreate an .fs file from the backup files:

repozo -Rv -r backup -D YYYY-MM-DD-HH-MM-SS -o Copy.fs 
repozo -Rv -r backup -D YYYY-MM-DD-HH-MM-SS -o Copy.fs

-D is optional, and specifies a UTC (not local) time; by default, current time is used. If specified, the hour, minute, and second parts are optional. repozo recreates the originally backed-up FileStorage, to the state it had at the most recent backup at or before this time. The -o option specifies an output file path, the name of the reconstructed FileStorage. In the example, the recreated FileStorage is Copy.fs in the current directory.

repozo -BQ is fast, usually taking time proportional to the growth in the FileStorage since the last time it was run. It's a good idea to make backups daily; incremental repozo backups are made quickly enough that you may wish to run them more frequently.

Other Information

How to backup your content in the database file Data.fs

http://plone.org/documentation/kb/backup-and-recover-data-fs-in-linux/backup-plone/