Backup Alfresco by copying the entire /opt/alf* dir?

[dc41]

Is Alfresco now "self contained?" In other words, when I install Alfresco Community v4.0.0 (4003) schema 5025 does it install everything but the startup/shutdown scripts in the /opt/alfresco-4.0.d folder?

I was reading through the backup and restore procedures, and the thought occurred to me that I might just save some time by back up the whole folder. I have plenty of backup space. If anything goes wrong and I need to restore from the backup, I could just restore the whole folder.

Does anyone know if this would work?

Thanks!

[mrogers]

Yes in principle.   However you are backing up more Than you need.   And you must not access the Lucene directories while Lucene is running.

[bbqigniter]

have a look at: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Backup_and_Restore

only backing up the data-folder isn't enough. you also need to backup the database

[dc41]

have a look at: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Backup_and_Restore

only backing up the data-folder isn't enough. you also need to backup the database

Isn't the database also kept in the data-folder? As long as it's shutdown, wouldn't it get backed up with the rest of the folder (as long as lucene isn't running?

I'm envisioning using cron to stop alfresco at 1:55 am, the run Simple Backup to back up my home and opt folders. The cron restarts at 3:30am or something like that.

I'll reread the docs on backup and restore. Maybe I missed something.

Thanks!

[mrogers]

It depends upon which database you are using.   PostGresSQL can probably be backed up like that way,   Don't think it works with mysql.

Try it and see, as I said above, in principle it will work.

There will be a few caveats though such as if there are any absolute paths in your configuration you will only be able to restore to the same location.