[FM Discuss] Databases

[Tim McNamara]

On 17 May 2010 14:31, Lachlan Musicman <datakid at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hola
>
> I was chatting to Muntek in the Redmine IRC channel this morning about
> the process/where to start on their new book.
>
> As I was looking through their Installation docs, I noticed something
> that I see everytime I look at these types of systems (wordpress,
> civicrm, etc) - namely, you need a database. And they are mostly the
> same - mysql, postgres, sqlite...
>
> Would it be outrageous to suggest that we have a (bigger-than-snippet)
> doc on how to create a database and dump/backup a database in each of
> those systems?

Lachlan,

Interesting idea. I would personally find this very valuable. I wonder
if it would be appropriate if these chapters were the start of a
"FLOSS system administration" manual.

"Linux commands" is user centric, e.g. how to get familiar with Linux.
When you start to talk about configuring databases and web servers,
then life changes somewhat. The tasks that you're looking at are sort
of the next steps.


Tim.