topic Re: Backup/restore process in Alfresco Archive

Backup/restore process

art99trash — Tue, 26 Apr 2016 14:52:49 GMT

I am trying to create a backup/restore process for my Alfresco Community 5 installation.The documentation (http://docs.alfresco.com/community5.0/tasks/backup-cold.html) states:By default, the dir.root contains both the contentstore and indexes. For a cold backup, back up the database and the content

Re: Backup/restore process

eswbitto — Tue, 26 Apr 2016 16:34:09 GMT

The best way to answer this question is to make sure you know what all the content holds.

By default: The data, database, and solr index all reside in the alf_data folder. It will remain here unless you configure alfresco to put it into a different location.

When backing up there are two things that you need to do. Backup alf_data in its entirety and also create database dumps of the alfresco database. You will need both when restoring data.

I also suggest you compress your backups.

Here is a great solution that deals with creating seemless backups.

http://fcorti.com/2013/02/06/alfresco-backup-script/

Re: Backup/restore process

art99trash — Tue, 26 Apr 2016 19:51:57 GMT

Thanks for the reply.
I installed Alfresco using the default locations so everything is in alf_data. My real concern was about
the indices. The Alfresco documentation mentioned just backing up contentstore and contentstore.deleted
but said that reindexing was not needed when following their instructions.
I'll take your advice and backup the entire alf_data directory and backup the database (postgresql).

The script you pointed to looks a lot like what I had in mind.

Thanks again.