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Backup and recovery strategies for pros

enkidu — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 17:34:47 GMT

is there a desent solution for an automated backup of alfresco (the database and contentstore) without shut down everything.. (stop tomcat, copy the dir.root, dumping the database) and that every day?isnt there no backup and recovery strategy where i dont have stop tomcat and do a procedure that is

Re: Backup and recovery strategies for pros

bisana — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 07:22:00 GMT

Hi enkidu
I have Alfresco CE running, I uses rsync to take backup.
I have written a script for the same which gets executes daily by 12.am, The steps in the script are
(a) Shutdown the service
(b) backup up DB, sco to the backup location
© rsync the alfresco installation dir to the backup server
(d) start the service
I have used simple bash script to do it.

Re: Backup and recovery strategies for pros

enkidu — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 08:51:52 GMT

thnx mate for the reply.. but is that a solution for a productive enviroment.
cant believe that alfresco is that kind of crap. btw what happens with user connected to the database?
are there any side effects shutdown the server while user working with alfresco?

Re: Backup and recovery strategies for pros

bisana — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 09:49:04 GMT

My backup is scheduled to happen at 12 mid night, for me there are no users at that time.
My method has been tested in real live problem and I feel very comfortable with it

Re: Backup and recovery strategies for pros

mikemars — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:35:39 GMT

We backup Alfresco without shutting down 6 days a week using a hot backup (We do a cold backup once a week which does involve stopping Alfresco), see the procedures and order here:

http://docs.alfresco.com/4.1/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.alfresco.enterprise.doc%2Ftasks%2Fbackup-hot.html

NOTE: It is critical the order in which you do the backup. i.e indexes, followed by database, followed by repository.

Re: Backup and recovery strategies for pros

ksalami — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 23:00:35 GMT

Hi Joseph,
Could you please share your script? I actually need to this in a windows environment.

Thanks
Salami

Re: Backup and recovery strategies for pros

bisana — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 04:34:00 GMT

My environment in LINUX I have used bash script and crontab to do the backup. I am not familiar how I could do it in MS enviornment
In your MS$ environment, it(my script) wont work.

Re: Backup and recovery strategies for pros

kiosirio — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 09:25:59 GMT

Hi bisana.
What's your Alfresco version?
Can you share your script for backup?
Thanks in advance.
KioSirio

Re: Backup and recovery strategies for pros

fcorti — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 10:28:13 GMT

Hi,

For a "cold" strategy of the backup/restore, here two links to scripts.
<a href="http://francescocorti.wordpress.com/2013/02/06/alfresco-backup-script/">http://francescocorti.wordpress.com/2013/02/06/alfresco-backup-script/</a>
<a href="http://francescocorti.wordpress.com/2013/02/12/alfresco-restore/">http://francescocorti.wordpress.com/2013/02/12/alfresco-restore/</a>