Practical Approach to Implement Koha Data Backup through Cloud Computing In Benue State University

The study is designed to document the Practical Approach to implement koha data backup through cloud computing at Benue State University. The study is guided by three objectives. The research is anchored on the experience of staff of Benue State University Library. This research made use of Linux cronjob command to schedule an automatic process that runs every 30 minutes to take koha data backup to a dropbox account that was created and synchronized with the koha server system. The focus of this research is to secure the koha database through cloud computing and render it less prone to data loss. Also, to enable librarians have a better knowledge of koha databackup, and implement cloud backup themselves without consulting a paid vendor. Screenshots of practical measures used during the data backup and retrieval are shown below from figure 1-13. Figure 1-8 shows the implementation of koha cloud backup and 9-13 shows retrieving koha database from cloud backup. In conclusion, this research work has brought out a simple approach to ensure the security of the koha database by using cloud computing to backup the koha database and retrieve the same through any computer connected to the internet..