What about the application config files inside jails?

[Ahmed Badr]

Hi,

I'm installing MariaDB, nginx and phpMySQL in a jail to serve a few applications on my network. As the best practice for using jails suggests, I mounted a FreeNAS dataset inside the jail to store the database (/var/db/mysql). Now what about the configuration files (for example: /usr/local/etc/my.conf) ? What's the best practice to store single config files from all over the installation to the FreeNAS dataset?

Thank you,
A.B.

 

[Jailer]

Config files are generally something that doesn't change once set up so a manual back up of them would seem sufficient. If changes are made, make a new backup.

I've found it easier to make a periodic backup of the database using mysqldump and have that backup stored on a separate database. You can set this up to run via cron or a task in the FreeNAS GUI and a simple backp script. Restoring the database from a catastrophic loss is pretty simple as well.