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alfresco CE5.2 backup and restore using RSYNC

hishjung — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 05:42:46 GMT

Hello, everyone!I am using alfresco community edition 5.2 on centos7 - with bundled postgresql database.To backup & restore it, i use RSYNC as follows." #!/bin/sh INSTALLDIR=/alfresco-community now=$(date +"%Y%m%d%H%M") $INSTALLDIR/alfresco.sh stop ################# backing up alf

Re: alfresco CE5.2 backup and restore using RSYNC

kintu_barot — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 06:24:45 GMT

You can even take a backup manually as well.

You need to take care of the few points while taking backup.

The order in which you are taking backup i.e. The order of backup must be the first index, database, and then the content stores.

Full re-indexing might take time at first start for a large number of files. So if the number of files is not more then you can prefer reindexing.

You can use any backup script which follows a backup plan in the above-mentioned order.

You can refer this Performing a hot backup | Alfresco Documentation for more info.

Regards,

Kintu

ContCentric

Re: alfresco CE5.2 backup and restore using RSYNC

hishjung — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 07:22:45 GMT

Dear Kintu,

Thanks for your prompt reply.

As i mentioned it, i have just installed it in bundle, so the alf_data folder has contents, Database and index.

I just want to know if i backup(cold backup) with my script, any problem will be happened when i restore it?

Or should i backup them separately even though they are just in one folder-alf_data?

Thanks in advance!

Regards,

Paul

Re: alfresco CE5.2 backup and restore using RSYNC

kintu_barot — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 10:45:34 GMT

Restoration of your Alfresco backup should not cause any issue.

You might face an issue if your contents and database are inconsistent when you have taken the hot backup.

I have not gone through your backup script but such inconsistency can occur if you have not followed the standard backup order.

Regards,

Kintu

ContCentric

Re: alfresco CE5.2 backup and restore using RSYNC

opsys — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 17:01:08 GMT

A backup is considered good only AFTER testing a complete restore !

I just did that exercice with a different process and it did not woked out right away...

Check https://hub.alfresco.com/t5/alfresco-content-services-forum/backup-and-restore/m-p/299337#M19641