On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 01:45:45PM +0100, helix84 wrote: > Hi rocky, > > there two general approaches; AIP is available only in newer versions of > DSpace. > > a) DB + assetstore + config + theme + customizations > b) AIP export > > I generally recommend the a) option (pg_dump for Postgres backup + > copy the other mentioned directories on the file-system level).
If you are doing regular system backups, then everything but the database should be covered already. If you decide to rely on that, the simplest thing to do is just to pg_dump the database and leave the dump in the filesystem, where it would be picked up by your system backups. Be sure to properly secure database backups, since they contain user passwords. The passwords are hashed, but why make life for the bad guys any easier than we have to? AIPs can also contain password hashes and should likewise be secured. There's no point in backing up the DBMS' own files (for example /var/lib/postgresql/9.2/data/base/**) because there is no reason to believe that a file-wise backup of these is consistent at any point in time. pg_dump will do this properly. The backing-store files (data/base/**) will consume backup media and time but aren't really restorable. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu Machines should not be friendly. Machines should be obedient.
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