Data backup

This is one of the most important, yet one of the most neglected, areas of computing. Backing up your data should be at the top of your computer's maintenance list, right next to virus protection. Without data backups, you are running the risk of losing your data.

Data loss can happen in many ways. One of the most common causes is the physical failure of the media, on which the data has been stored on. In some situations, users of the system might have deleted the content due to some error. No matter what, your data is your intellectual property, and you have to protect it by taking proper backups regularly.

List of items to backup

Alfresco stores content information in both the database and the filesystem. You need to back up both the filesystem and relational database. As a part of implementation, you might have customized Alfresco. In this case, you also need to back up the customization files. If you have used an external membership system, such as Active Directory or OpenLDAP...