Database Backup Restore » History » Version 1
Luke Murphey, 04/03/2010 12:54 PM
| 1 | 1 | Luke Murphey | h1. Database Backup Restore |
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| 3 | 1 | Luke Murphey | NSIA stores it's entire state in the database. Therefore, backing up the database will backup all of the NSIA (except the application itself). |
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| 5 | 1 | Luke Murphey | h2. Creating Backups (Internal Database Only) |
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| 7 | 1 | Luke Murphey | Backups of the database can be created within the application by selecting "Create Backup" (http://127.0.0.1:8080/System/Backup) within the interface. This causes the application to create a zip archive containing a snapshot of the database in <install_directory>/var/backups. |
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| 9 | 1 | Luke Murphey | h2. Restoring from a Backup (Internal Database Only) |
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| 11 | 1 | Luke Murphey | A backup of the database can be restored by extracting a backup into <install_directory>/var/database after shutting down NSIA. Restart NSIA after restoring the database will cause NSIA to mount the restored database. |