Backup and recovery strategies for pros

[enkidu]

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 so '90 style?

i read the backup strategy, but srly that is not acceptable in a productive enviroment.

[bisana]

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.

[enkidu]

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?

[ksalami]

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

Thanks
Salami

[bisana]

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.

[kiosirio]

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

[fcorti]

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>

[bisana]

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

[mikemars]

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.htm...

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