<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>Chapter�8.�Backup and Recovery</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.64.1"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="OpenACS Core Documentation"><link rel="up" href="acs-admin.html" title="Part�II.�Administrator's Guide"><link rel="previous" href="install-next-nightly-vacuum.html" title="Vacuum Postgres nightly"><link rel="next" href="install-next-backups.html" title="Backup Strategy"><link rel="stylesheet" href="openacs.css" type="text/css"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><a href="http://openacs.org"><img src="/doc/images/alex.jpg" border="0" alt="Alex logo"></a><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header" border="0"><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="install-next-nightly-vacuum.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Part�II.�Administrator's Guide</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="install-next-backups.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="chapter" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a name="backup-recovery"></a>Chapter�8.�Backup and Recovery</h2></div></div><div></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="install-next-backups.html">Backup Strategy</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="snapshot-backup.html">Manual backup and recovery</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="automated-backup.html">Automated Backup</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="backups-with-cvs.html">Using CVS for backup-recovery</a></span></dt></dl></div><div class="authorblurb"><p>By <a href="mailto:dhogaza@pacifier.com" target="_top">Don Baccus</a> with additions by <a href="mailto:joel@aufrecht.org" target="_top">Joel Aufrecht</a></p> OpenACS docs are written by the named authors, and may be edited by OpenACS documentation staff. </div><p>We will cover some basic backup and recovery strategies. These are intended to be robust but simple enough to set up. For a large scale production site you would probably need to create your own backup strategies (in particular full dumps from oracle, while easy to set up, are far from the best solution). </p><p>There are three basic things which need to be backed up, the database data, the server source tree, and the acs-content-repository (which is in the server source tree).</p><div class="figure"><a name="id2503099"></a><p class="title"><b>Figure�8.1.�Backup and Recovery Strategy</b></p><div class="mediaobject" align="center"><img src="images/backup.png" align="middle" alt="Backup and Recovery Strategy"></div></div><div class="cvstag">($Id: backup-recovery.html,v 1.32 2004/06/24 09:42:26 jeffd Exp $)</div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="install-next-nightly-vacuum.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="install-next-backups.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left">Vacuum Postgres nightly </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="acs-admin.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> Backup Strategy</td></tr></table><hr><address><a href="mailto:docs@openacs.org">docs@openacs.org</a></address></div><a name="comments"></a><center><a href="http://openacs.org/doc/current/backup-recovery.html#comments">View comments on this page at openacs.org</a></center></body></html>