Re: [Dspace-tech] FW: Automatic scheduled backup for DSpace using open source backup software

2007-07-30 Thread Robert Tansley
Lots of useful info on this thread -- would some of you mind updating http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/BackupRestore? I put that page up literally years ago as a strawman and no one added to it... Rob On 30/07/07, Christian Voelker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Am 30.07.2007 um 21:49 s

Re: [Dspace-tech] FW: Automatic scheduled backup for DSpace using open source backup software

2007-07-30 Thread Christian Voelker
Hello, Am 30.07.2007 um 21:49 schrieb Mark H. Wood: > We need to be careful as to what we mean by "data directory". A > typical PostgreSQL installation has a directory *named* "data" which > *should* be backed up. It contains configuration and access-control > data, perhaps X.509 certificates t

Re: [Dspace-tech] FW: Automatic scheduled backup for DSpace using open source backup software

2007-07-30 Thread Mark H. Wood
We need to be careful as to what we mean by "data directory". A typical PostgreSQL installation has a directory *named* "data" which *should* be backed up. It contains configuration and access-control data, perhaps X.509 certificates to enable TLS-encrypted access, some small files used for resta

Re: [Dspace-tech] FW: Automatic scheduled backup for DSpace using open source backup software

2007-07-30 Thread Christian Voelker
Am 30.07.2007 um 11:50 schrieb Jayan Chirayath Kurian: > Could you please suggest is there a need to take the backup of > PostgreSQL data directory. If so how to restore this and under > which circumstances we need to use the PostgreSQL data directory. Using pg_dump is usually better. Copying

[Dspace-tech] FW: Automatic scheduled backup for DSpace using open source backup software

2007-07-30 Thread Jayan Chirayath Kurian
Hi! For testing, I deleted the postgresql software and reinstalled from scratch. Created the dspace database through the postgresql admin interface. Imported data from the backup file. DSpace (1.4.1/windows 2003) works fine. Could you please suggest is there a need to take the backup of Postgr