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Redmine Cookbook

You're reading from   Redmine Cookbook Over 80 hands-on recipes to improve your skills in project management, team management, process improvement, and Redmine administration

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785286131
Length 322 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Aleksandar Pavic Aleksandar Pavic
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Installing and Running Redmine 2. Customizing Redmine FREE CHAPTER 3. Project Management with Redmine 4. Improving Team Performance 5. Regular and Planned Maintenance 6. Performance and System Tuning 7. Integrating Redmine with Other Software 8. Getting the Most Out of Scripts and Plugins 9. Troubleshooting 10. Making the Most of Redmine Index

Recovering from system failure


Your hardware malfunctioned, server got hacked, or Redmine does not work after upgrade, and of course, backup is unavailable for some reason. System failure does not necessarily mean that you have lost all your Redmine data and files.

Getting ready

Prepare a new system with a blank Redmine installed or hard drive space to save Redmine data, which will be used after reinstallation.

How to do it…

Recovering from system failure should not be too hard considering that you can still access the hard drive on which Redmine data is stored. The steps to recover from failure would be, as follows:

  1. Export the database or at least copy its files; usually for MySQL databases, data is stored in the frm and ibd files located in /var/lib/mysql or elsewhere depending upon system configuration.

  2. Copy everything from the Redmine installation root/files directory.

  3. Copy configuration files database.yml, configuration.yml, and environment.rb.

  4. Copy plugins folders.

  5. Install blank Redmine, the...

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