Disaster Recovery\Off-site replication

[tkapasi]

Hello

I've been tasked with configuring replication of an Alfresco repository to an off-site location for disaster recovery purposes.  The RDBMS being used is SQL Server 2008, my initial solution is to mirror the database (i.e. provide a Hot Standby) and use some file synchronisation software e.g. rSync to replicate the content. 

Would anyone know if this is the preferred method or is there another way of acheiving the same?  Any pointers to information resources or checklists would be most welcome or if anyone has some lessons learned they would like to share would be highly appreciated.

Thank you in advance

[mrogers]

That sounds like a good starting point.

My piece of advice is to test your backup from time to time.    I've lost count of of the number of times when someone thinks they have a good backup only to find that its not been working for years.

[tkapasi]

Hi

I have been investigating further (found the Backup & High Availability Guide - Alfresco 2.1) and have found references to "Alfresco Replicating Content Stores", can I assume that I can configure the appropriate config files to Push content to a standby server over a WAN instead of using, for example, rSync?

Then I presume I would only have to mirror the metadata database and configure something on the standby server to rebuild the Lucene indexes.

Are these assumptions correct?  Can this be done in 3.2?

Thanks

[tkapasi]

Think this answers the last question regarding ReplicatingContentStore over WAN.

They do rely on the secondary stores being network drives or local systems.

We don't have a remote content store to act as secondary content stores. Such remote replication can be done with RSync, but to have full transactional replication, we'd have to think about writing a remote ContentStore. Effectively, acting as a mapping service for file distribution.

http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1852