Backing up Alfresco

A fairly fool prof way of backup up the Alfresco server.

stop alfresco

sh /opt/alfresco-4.2.b/alfresco.sh stop

Change the global properties file

In /opt/alfresco-4.2.b/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco-global.properties turn

### Solr indexing ###

index.subsystem.name=solr

dir.keystore=${dir.root}/keystore

solr.port.ssl=8443

into

### Solr indexing ###

index.subsystem.name=noindex

dir.keystore=${dir.root}/keystore

#solr.port.ssl=8443

Start and Stop the system

sh /opt/alfresco-4.2.b/alfresco.sh start && sleep 300 && sh /opt/alfresco-4.2.b/alfresco.sh stop

Dump the database structure

Start Alfresco postgresql:

 sh /opt/alfresco-4.2.b/alfresco.sh start postgresql

Dump (backup) the entire alfresco postgresql database to a script file (the postgres user password will be asked, use the one that you gave during the Alfresco installation):

 su postgres

$ pg_dump -h localhost alfresco > /home/philip/backup/alfrescodbdump

Password:

$ exit

Stop Alfresco postgresql:

sh /opt/alfresco-4.0.e/alfresco.sh stop postgresql

Backup the datastructure

cp /opt/alfresco-4.2.b /home/philip/backup/alfresco-4.2.b.backup -R

Revert the indexing back to on (Solr):

In /opt/alfresco-4.2.b/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco-global.properties turn

### Solr indexing ###

index.subsystem.name=noindex

dir.keystore=${dir.root}/keystore

#solr.port.ssl=8443

into

### Solr indexing ###

index.subsystem.name=solr

dir.keystore=${dir.root}/keystore

solr.port.ssl=8443

Start  the system

sh /opt/alfresco-4.2.b/alfresco.sh start