Backup and Restore.....

Hi,

I wanted to create an utility which creates/copies all the newly created/update content from Production to DR environment in daily basis. We are currently using VTT for same, but VTT recommends to shut down the environment before taking the back up. This is not feasible for highly available system.

In VTT, I can see that it copies data in DB and File system. So, if I will create a procedure to:

Copy all changes entries in DB from Production to Preproduction in last 24 hours
Copy all files modified/created from Production to Preproduction in last 24 hours

will keep my Preproduction in sync with Production on a daily basis.

Request you to please let me know if someone have already done this kind of exercise or I am missing something here?

Many thanks,

Sanjeev

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Qutubuddin

Sanjeev,

Here are some question you need to have answer to beforedeciding to go on this journey.

<![if !supportLists]>· <![endif]>Is it VCM which needs to be part of your Highly Available Environmentor is it Delivery sites?

<![if !supportLists]>· <![endif]>Does meta information like created by, modified by and correspondingdates are of any importance to you?

<![if !supportLists]>· <![endif]>Do you need content versioning for any business reasons?

<![if !supportLists]>· <![endif]>Is content audit information of any use to you business or legalreasons?

VTT does much more than just copying the content from oneenvironment to other. It also makes sure that metadata is not affected andother system information is transferred.

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Backup and Restore.....

Posted by sanjeev.x.kumar@astrazeneca.com (Kumar, Sanjeev) On 2010/12/16 18:24

Hi,

In VTT, I can see that it copies data in DB and File system. So, if I will create a procedure to:

Copy all changes entries in DB from Production to Preproduction in last 24 hours
Copy all files modified/created from Production to Preproduction in last 24 hours

will keep my Preproduction in sync with Production on a daily basis.

Request you to please let me know if someone have already done this kind of exercise or I am missing something here?

Many thanks,

Sanjeev

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Sanjeev_Kumar

Hi,

Thanks a lot for looking into this!

Below are the answers for your question:-

We need Previiew as well as Live both stages to be available.

Meta-data is required
Content version is not needed as such
Content audit information is needed as well.

Best regards,
Sanjeev

Qutubuddin

Sanjeev,

Looking at the answers below, it’s pretty clear that whatyou want to do will require re-architecting the system.

Sorry to say they are no simple code solutions to this problem.

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Posted by sanjeev.x.kumar@astrazeneca.com (Kumar, Sanjeev) On 2010/12/20 05:19

Hi,

Thanks a lot for looking into this!

Below are the answers for your question:-

We need Previiew as well as Live both stages to be available.

Meta-data is required
Content version is not needed as such
Content audit information is needed as well.

Best regards,
Sanjeev

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Not sure if it meets all your requirements, but have you considered creating a new Delivery Stage for DR? Then just have your site publish to the DR stage at the same time it pushes the content to Production.

Regards,

Scott

Quoted Sanjeev Kumar (sanjeev.x.kumar@astrazeneca.com) on 2010/12/21 22:56:

Hi,

In VTT, I can see that it copies data in DB and File system. So, if I will create a procedure to:

Copy all changes entries in DB from Production to Preproduction in last 24 hours
Copy all files modified/created from Production to Preproduction in last 24 hours

will keep my Preproduction in sync with Production on a daily basis.

Request you to please let me know if someone have already done this kind of exercise or I am missing something here?

Many thanks,

Sanjeev

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Hi Scott,

We have considered this approach, but preview stage will not be available in below case.

Many thanks,

Sanjeev

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Backup and Restore..... Posted by scott.h.kaufmann@xcelenergy.com (Kaufmann, Scott) On 2010/12/22 00:56

Not sure if it meets all your requirements, but have you considered creating a new Delivery Stage for DR? Then just have your site publish to the DR stage at the same time it pushes the content to Production. Regards, Scott Quoted Sanjeev Kumar (sanjeev.x.kumar@astrazeneca.com) on 2010/12/21 22:56: Hi, I wanted to create an utility which creates/copies all the newly created/update content from Production to DR environment in daily basis. We are currently using VTT for same, but VTT recommends to shut down the environment before taking the back up. This is not feasible for highly available system. In VTT, I can see that it copies data in DB and File system. So, if I will create a procedure to: Copy all changes entries in DB from Production to Preproduction in last 24 hours Copy all files modified/created fr! om Production to Preproduction in last 24 hours will keep my Preproduction in sync with Production on a daily basis. Request you to please let me know if someone have already done this kind of exercise or I am missing something here?

Many thanks, Sanjeev
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Sanjeev_Kumar

Hi,

I got a KB Article Number: 17549335 (How can I export only the updated content to update my new site? ). I wrote a JAVA class which is giving the manifest.xml file which all modified/updated objects. However, I am seeing that most of the objects export is failing specially for below types of objects:-

Custom Content Component objects
ClearCase Content Type objects

I looked into ADMIN guide, but it is not stating that vgnexport will not export these object types. Any idea?

Thanks,
Sanjeev

Sanjeev_Kumar

Sorry for typo, it was Clear Cache, not Clear Case.

Thanks,
Sanjeev