Nagios - Backup

[newyork]

I have got access to Nagios machine & I am new to this. Somone was already working on it and it is monitoring many more than 500+hosts and plenty of config files available in various folders.

How do i find out if my Nagios configuration files are backed up or not ? if not what are the methods i can do a regular backup ? cron/rsynch/scp ???

[jmcdonald]

More than likely, your nagios is installed in /usr/local/nagios but if it isn't there you could :

1. ps -ef | grep nagios
   
   This will show the nagios process and the path should be there.
2. find / -name nagios
   
   This will search the file systems for nagios.

In my nagios installations, I do both tar/scp and rsync. On the servers I have in a DR configuration I rsync everything in /ust/local/nagios. On other servers, I tar everything under the root nagios directory and scp it to another server.

* The configuration files are in the nagios etc directory (/usr/local/nagios/etc)

Hope this helps.