Re: [Geoserver-users] Backing up the data dir

2013-03-05 Thread Jonathan Moules
Thanks for the replies both. I wasn't aware the GWC tiles could be placed elsewhere; I'll have to investigate that. We don't actually have anything in our /data directory and the content of /coverages can be placed anywhere. I think what I'll end up doing is segregating the remaining data from

[Geoserver-users] Backing up the data dir

2013-03-04 Thread Jonathan Moules
Hi List, I'm curious - what do people do to back up their data directory? Do you back up everything or just a select few files/folders? Myself I'd like to back up everything except the data itself (that being /coverages, /data and /gwc), but there's an issue with the /gwc directory. Not only

Re: [Geoserver-users] Backing up the data dir

2013-03-04 Thread Stefano Iacovella
Hi Jonathan, I usually change the default data dir configuration. For integrated GeoWebCache, as you suggested, a good approach could be to select an external folder for tiles and configuration. I usually also try to avoid to store the tiles in the same filesystem where data are stored. For

Re: [Geoserver-users] Backing up the data dir

2013-03-04 Thread cmaul
Jonathan, what do people do? That. echo off set currdate=geoserver_data2.1.3_%Date:~10,4%%Date:~7,2%%Date:~4,2% mkdir c:\data_repository\%currdate% xcopy /E /V c:\geoserver_data2.1.3\* c:\data_repository\%currdate%\ scheduled task runs every Sunday 17:00 and every three months I clean out

Re: [Geoserver-users] Backing up the data dir

2013-03-04 Thread cmaul
Jonathan, helps if you read the entire Email. Me in that case... This above mentioned data directory has only database connections. The file-based data are only few and somewhere else because their update cycle differs to the DB and styles. That is done with a similar script that runs