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- | ====== Best Practices for File Fabric | + | # Appliance Backups |
- | ===== General Considerations | + | ## General Considerations |
- | * File Fabric Appliance administrators should implement backup strategies that are consistent with their organisations' | + | * File Fabric Appliance administrators should implement backup strategies that are consistent with their organisations' |
* Both the Web server component of the File Fabric Appliance and the database - which may be internal or external to the Web server VM - should be backed up. | * Both the Web server component of the File Fabric Appliance and the database - which may be internal or external to the Web server VM - should be backed up. | ||
- | ===== Appliance | + | ## Appliance |
Because the contents of an Appliance that does not contain a database (perhaps better termed a "Web server" | Because the contents of an Appliance that does not contain a database (perhaps better termed a "Web server" | ||
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When several Appliances with identical configurations are used in an HA configuration, | When several Appliances with identical configurations are used in an HA configuration, | ||
- | ===== Database Backups | + | ## Database Backups |
- | ==== Ensuring Consistency | + | ### Ensuring Consistency |
To ensure consistency in the backed up data, the database should be backed up during periods when it is not being updated. While it is being backed up, both user access and scheduled processing (including cron jobs) should be suspended. | To ensure consistency in the backed up data, the database should be backed up during periods when it is not being updated. While it is being backed up, both user access and scheduled processing (including cron jobs) should be suspended. | ||
- | ==== Physical and Logical Backups | + | ### Physical and Logical Backups |
SME's MySQL (MariaDB) database can be backed up in two ways: | SME's MySQL (MariaDB) database can be backed up in two ways: | ||
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You may wish to retain several generations of database backups so you will have a choice of points in time for recovery. To meet this requirement the database can be backed up to a timestamped file with several generations of backups retained on a rolling basis. SME can provide professional services to automate this process. | You may wish to retain several generations of database backups so you will have a choice of points in time for recovery. To meet this requirement the database can be backed up to a timestamped file with several generations of backups retained on a rolling basis. SME can provide professional services to automate this process. | ||
- | ==== Appliances with Internal | + | ### Appliances with Internal |
For Appliances with internal databases one backup can serve both purposes: Appliance backup and database backup. In this situation it is the database changes, which occur frequently and in large numbers on a typical system, that drive the backup frequency. | For Appliances with internal databases one backup can serve both purposes: Appliance backup and database backup. In this situation it is the database changes, which occur frequently and in large numbers on a typical system, that drive the backup frequency. | ||
- | ==== Appliances | + | ### Appliances |
Where the database is external, the Appliance and the database need to be handled separately. Database backup files can be made and rotated as described in the previous section, but stored on the database server or on some other reliable storage. | Where the database is external, the Appliance and the database need to be handled separately. Database backup files can be made and rotated as described in the previous section, but stored on the database server or on some other reliable storage. | ||
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