Backup and Restore File Location

[eswbitto]

I'm trying to find documentation that tells where exactly the file location if for backing up file content, lucene indexes, and postgresql database.

I'm using 4.2.c on a linux centos 6.4 server my dir.root is /opt/alfresco/alf_data.

I think the majority of what I need to backup would be in the alf_data directory, but I'm not sure if the database content resides in that same directory or not.

More or less I'm just verifying directory locations of where I need to point my backup software at.



Thanks in advance!

[rjohnson]

Assuming you have done a vanilla install, everything to do with data should be in that directory. Your main config file (alfresco-global.properties) is not in that directory of course.

If you do any customisations (share-config-custom, custom dashlets etc) then these are not in that directory. Depending on how you do it they will most likely be somewhere in {alfresco-home}/tomcat/webapps but as you will have put them there, you will know where they are.

Bob

[eswbitto]

Yeah I have just did the standard install from the bin file. Ok cool thanks for the info. I'd still probably backup the configurations just as a precaution, but I read the Backup and Restore manual and it wants index and content with the database as a set.

[rjohnson]

Yep it does need them as a set and you need to ensure that Tomcat and PosgresQL are stopped when you backup.

I have seen instructions for hot backups, but I have never done them.

Bob