[ale] Backing up Alfresco

[John Cohorn]

Hey Jim,

This might help:
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Backup_and_Restore

There isn't anything built into Alfresco itself for backups except for a
scheduled job that backs up the lucene indexes only.

Cold backup of the contentstore folder and the DB as you are doing should
work. Hot backup of MySQL should be possible although I'm not certain the
best method, mysqldump or a commercial tool.

HTH

P.S.:

If you work with anyone who knows and loves Alfresco there are openings for
Support in Atlanta ;)
http://www.alfresco.com/about/careers/jobs/2010/10/techincal_support_eng/

On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Jim Butler
<jimbutler1234567890 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi everyone..
> Does anyone here administrate an Alfresco server or a cluster or
> Alfresco servers?
> I need to know, how are you backing up Alfresco? Are you periodically
> doing a tar zcvf of the Alfresco directory structure, or does Alfresco
> have some kind of provision for backing up everything from within it's
> management console? I do know Alfresco is more than just a pile of files
> in a directory - it has databases as well. If simply taring everything
> including the Alfresco directory tree and the MySQL database files is
> the way it's being done, fine - but I suspect there is a more elegant
> backup method.  I have never administrated Alfresco before. I'd never
> even heard of it until a month ago. Let me know how it's done..
>
> Thanks,
> Jim Butler
> Linux Network Administrator
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