Backup strategy for File System Storage

[Former Member]

Hi there

Is there any information specific to Content Server Backup for those using File System Storage rather than the database.

The OSS note 319332 seems to refer to database storage. Is there anything like this for File System Storage?

Regards,

Athol

[markus_staack]

Hi!

You would want to perform an incremental backup as frequently as possible (every other hour or even more often would be good) to emulate rollforward recovery of the ContentServer database.

incremental would mean "save everything that has changed since the last backup ran" (the way TSM does incremental backups)

You have to keep in mind that an original file stored on the content server will change location (i.e. path) whenever it is changed and checked in again:

1st version: <ContRepRoot>/<ContRep>/YYYY/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX/filename.ext

2nd version: <ContRepRoot>/<ContRep>/ZZZZ/NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN/filename.ext

with YYYY and ZZZZ being 4-digit hexadecimal numbers completely independent of each other and X* and N* being 32-digit hexadecimal numbers completely independent of each other

if you don't use content versions, the old content-version (1) will be removed when checking in the new content version (2) was successful

so no versions in your backup are needed.

Thank you and best regards, Markus