Backup questions

["Subba Rao" <sailorn () attglobal net>]

The few installations of snort I did in production environment had only the log file ("alerts") which Snort was writing 
too.  This file was massaged and created neat/meaningful web pages and alerts were sent out to the admins.  At the end 
of the day I did backup the "alerts" file to the backup (Tivoli) server and then copied /dev/null over "alerts" for the 
next day.

Now I plan to use the Snort + Acid combination.  In this setup, Acid seems to use MySql (or other preffered SQL 
server).  At the end of the day, I would like to backup these alerts/warnings for a few months.  In this case, what do 
I backup? There is no "alerts" file.  If it is the database, then what are the database files that I need to backup?
Once backup is done, how do I clean up the DB for the next day alerts/warnings?

Thank you in advance for any help.

Subba Rao
sailorn () attglobal net
2002-11-13




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