topic Backup/Restore documents? in Alfresco Archive

Backup/Restore documents?

cwhitmore88 — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:29:09 GMT

I've searched the documentation, but can't find anything on restoring documenting. I know you can backup/restore everything, but how would someone restore individual documents from a backup?

Re: Backup/Restore documents?

mrogers — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:15:48 GMT

I think the simple answer is that you don't back up and restore individual documents.

How do you envisage ever loosing a single document that would require an individual restore?

Re: Backup/Restore documents?

cwhitmore88 — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:27:01 GMT

I work with attorneys. You would be surprised what they are capable of!!!!
Are there third-party tools for backup/restore or do must rely on built-in features? Has disaster recovery been addressed in this product?
Thanks.

Re: Backup/Restore documents?

mrogers — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:07:22 GMT

You are free to implement whatever backup suits. (And you can set up permissions such that the attorneys can't muck up the data in the first place!)

http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Backup_and_Restore

Re: Backup/Restore documents?

marcon — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 14:03:02 GMT

actually I also need to restore a single document, without restore the complete alfresco ..
This in case a single user want a document restored when other users keep modifing other documents.. So I have the needing to restore 1 or more documents and keep the rest unrestored. .

Re: Backup/Restore documents?

mward — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 14:16:29 GMT

That's probably a use-case covered by versioning rather than back up. If a user wants to restore an earlier version of a file, then they can.

Re: Backup/Restore documents?

marcon — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 14:33:46 GMT

That's probably a use-case covered by versioning rather than back up. If a user wants to restore an earlier version of a file, then they can.

Yeah that's smart , I will try to teach end users, but you know often end users are not so smart and often they pretend a single document restore after a data lost.