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| The most "foolproof" way to backup EMEN2 is to stop all emen2 processes, and archive the entire EMEN2DBHOME directory. At this point, everything can be backed up as normal files without any special consideration. If you have specified paths outside EMEN2DBHOME, e.g. for binary attachment storage, you will also need to archive these directories. |
The most "foolproof" way to backup EMEN2 is to stop all emen2 processes, and archive the entire EMEN2 environment directory. At this point, everything can be backed up as normal files without any special consideration. |
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| This command will copy the EMEN2DBHOME/log/log.* files to the configuration-specified directory, and you can use these to bring a cold-backup up to date using "db_restore -c" | This command will copy the journal/log.* files to the configuration-specified directory. These can be copied to the journal directory of the cold backup, and replayed using the BerkeleyDB recover command, "db_recover -c -h <backup directory>". Please email me if you have any questions or concerns about this operation. |
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| Files that are not part of the BerkeleyDB environment (emen2data, tiles, config, etc.) can be copied at any time using normal backup procedures; "rsync" is probably the most appropriate tool. | Files that are not part of the BerkeleyDB environment (binary, preview, config, etc.) can be copied at any time using normal backup procedures; "rsync" is probably the most appropriate tool. If you have changed your configuration to use directories outside of EMEN2DBHOME (most commonly, to place binary storage on different disk) make sure you back these up as well! Again, rsync is fine. |
EMEN2 Backups
An EMEN2 environment contains a number of things:
BerkeleyDB files:
- _db.* (environment backing files)
- data/ (databases)
- journal/ (transaction journal)
EMEN2-managed file attachments:
- binary/ (file storage)
- preview/ (thumbnails and other derived data)
- tmp/ (temporary files)
Configuration and application logs:
- DB_CONFIG
- config.json
- log/ (EMEN2 application logs)
- ssl/ (SSL certificates)
Cold Backups
The most "foolproof" way to backup EMEN2 is to stop all emen2 processes, and archive the entire EMEN2 environment directory. At this point, everything can be backed up as normal files without any special consideration.
Hot Backups
If the EMEN2 environment is currently open, the BerkeleyDB files cannot simply be copied, because they are likely to change during the operation. The mechanism I recommend for creating incremental backups is to first create a cold backup, then copy updated BerkeleyDB log files using:
emen2ctl archive -h <EMEN2DBHOME>
This command will copy the journal/log.* files to the configuration-specified directory. These can be copied to the journal directory of the cold backup, and replayed using the BerkeleyDB recover command, "db_recover -c -h <backup directory>". Please email me if you have any questions or concerns about this operation.
Non-BerkeleyDB Files
Files that are not part of the BerkeleyDB environment (binary, preview, config, etc.) can be copied at any time using normal backup procedures; "rsync" is probably the most appropriate tool.
If you have changed your configuration to use directories outside of EMEN2DBHOME (most commonly, to place binary storage on different disk) make sure you back these up as well! Again, rsync is fine.