[ale] Backing up Alfresco

[Jim Butler]

Hi everyone..
Does anyone here administrate an Alfresco server or a cluster or 
Alfresco servers?
I need to know, how are you backing up Alfresco? Are you periodically 
doing a tar zcvf of the Alfresco directory structure, or does Alfresco 
have some kind of provision for backing up everything from within it's 
management console? I do know Alfresco is more than just a pile of files 
in a directory - it has databases as well. If simply taring everything 
including the Alfresco directory tree and the MySQL database files is 
the way it's being done, fine - but I suspect there is a more elegant 
backup method.  I have never administrated Alfresco before. I'd never 
even heard of it until a month ago. Let me know how it's done..

Thanks,
Jim Butler
Linux Network Administrator