Repositorybackupandrestore.PDF

Repository backup and restore Your Rating: Results: 113 rates Introduction The Magnolia repositories are at the heart of the CMS and carry all the web page as well as any other content except the JSP templates themselves. You want to make regular backups and taking down the website isnt always an option. Be warned, Im a linux guy and what I wrote below will be from that perspective. Im sure there are Windows versions of utilities like wget and cron. As I recall, the Windows NT version of cron was at so thats some place to start with a Google search. Since Magnolia EE 3.6 we have developed the special module which handles the whole backup process. For more informations follow to Backup module documentation The Export servlet Magnolia starting at around version 2.1 (maybe available in 2.0) incorporated an XML export function completely compatible with the bootstrap functions used when you first installed the .war files. You can see it in action by looking at http://localhost:8080/.magnolia/mgnl-expo rt. (or http://localhost:8080/magnoliaAuthor/.magnolia/mgnl-export) Obviously change the server name and port numbers to match your particular installation. Here are the options available: mgnlRepository: The repository to backup. Available options are website, users, roles, and config. mgnlPath: The path within the chosen repository to backup. Be aware that at least the early 2.1 versions didnt accept the root node on bootstrap, so be sure to choose each of the first level paths. A prime example (from the shipping example) is /features of the website repository. mgnlKeepVersion: Should the export include all the previous versions of your repository data? The only valid value is true. Leave it out to only export the most current version. Youll probably want only the most current version if you backup on