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Alfresco for Administrators

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782175032
Length 188 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Vandana Pal Vandana Pal
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Understanding Alfresco FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting Up the Alfresco Environment 3. Alfresco Configuration 4. Administration of Alfresco 5. Search 6. Permissions and Security 7. High Availability in Alfresco 8. The Basics of the Alfresco Content Store 9. Maintenance and Troubleshooting 10. Upgrade Index

The backup and restore process


For an application to be robust, a proper backup process for all data is very important. Here, we will cover details about what steps are required for backing up and restoring data in Alfresco.

Backups are required for the main critical components of Alfresco which hold the data, as listed below.

  • Database: You can use the database dump method based on the type of database used for backup. There is a very good tool, Xtrabackup for MySQL, using which, backing up a large database is trivial. Refer to http://www.percona.com/software/percona-xtrabackup. As the repository size grows, the DB size will be large, so an efficient and incremental backup and restore strategy should be defined for the database.

  • ContentStore (All Binary Files): Standard file system replication can be used to back up the content store. An important point to note here is that as your repository size grows, a full backup of the content store will become a time consuming process. So, always...

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