The following command can be used to install holland backup:

yum install holland-common holland-mysqldump

Next you will need to make sure that you a .my.cnf file. You can create this file in the root directory if it does not already exist (e.g. touch .my.cnf). The file should look like:

[client]

user=user

password=yourpasswordhere

The default backup location for holland is /var/spool/holland/ You can edit this by going to the config file /etc/holland/holland.conf and changing the backup_directory. This section should look similar to this:

## Top level directory where backups are held

backup_directory = /var/spool/holland

You will then need to check if the following file exists, if it doesn’t then you will need to create it /etc/holland/backupsets/default.conf

A full example (that you can copy and paste) can be found http://7d3a92efe81c523335c5-3e1574e4e7709cc79d1ba495d50d8d75.r21.cf3.rackcdn.com/default.conf%28holland%29.txt if it does not exist.

By default Holland will only keep 1 backup, you can change this by locating the following configuration line in the default.conf and changing the variable:

backups-to-keep = 1

After you have configured holland you can test its configuration and perform a manual backup by using the following command:

holland bk

You can then check if the backup was succesful by going to the backup location (/var/spool/holland/default/newest/backup_data/).

Holland has been successfully installed. You can now configure cronjobs to execute these backups in a manner that suits your needs.