Alfresco Backup and Recovery Tool: a real world backup solution for Alfresco

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Alfresco Backup and Recovery Tool: a real world backup solution

November 2013

Toni de la Fuente – Alfresco Senior Solutions [email protected]

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Who I am? @toniblyx• Alfresco Senior Solutions Engineer,

Americas• Working with Alfresco for 6 years• 3.5 years as part of the team• Former Consultant & Security Auditor:

ethical hacking, penetration tests.• And writing at blyx.com since 2002

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Agenda

• Foundation Concepts• Alfresco Backup Overview• Backup and Restore Alfresco with

Alfresco BART

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White Paper

Status:• Draft• On review

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Backup and Disaster Recovery• Backup, Archiving, Disaster

Recovery• Why?• Business impact• RPO and RTO

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Backup and Disaster Recovery• Methods• Full, incremental, differential

• Techniques• Cold, warm, hot•Window, rotation, destination

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Geo Disaster Recovery

•DR Primary

BackupDisaster Recovery preparedness:

• Daily content backups

• Backup servers on standby

(active/passive)

• Regular backup and restore testing

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Backup Procedure and Methods• What?• Static• Dynami

c• Order

+ Inst

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+ Conf

ig

+ Cust

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• Cold• Warm• Hot

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Alfresco Backup Overview• Components• Scheduled jobs• Other scheduled jobs to consider

Physical Storage

Relational Database File SystemLucene or SOLRInstallation,

Config and logs files

system.content.orphanCleanup.cronExpression=0 0 4 * * ?system.content.orphanProtectDays=14system.content.eagerOrphanCleanup=false

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Restore Procedure - User• Trashcan

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Restore Procedure – Sys Admin

1. Installation2. Configuration3. Customization4. DB5. Content Store6. Indexes

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Disaster Recovery

•DR

Active - Active

Active -

Passive

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Alfresco BART• Description• Features• Concepts• Installation

• Usage• Disaster Recovery• Demo• TODO

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Alfresco BART - Description• Alfresco Backups and Recovery

Tool written in shell script on top of Duplicity (Linux servers).• Local file system, FTP, SCP or

Amazon S3.• Indexes, data base, content

store and deployment and configuration files. • v0.2 at

http://blyx.com/alfresco-bart

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mysqldump

Oracle imp/exp

pg_dump

Backup Policies

Indexes: Lucene /

Solr

Recovery commands & wizard

Full / Incremental

Backup

Major DBs Supported

S3, FTP, SCP, LocalCustom

Tape Volume Size

Single File Recovery

Geo Desaster Recovery Encryption

Bash + properties

Compress

GnuPG

librsync

NcFTP

Content Store

Selector Aware

Cluster Aware

Log Reporting

Alfresco BART - Features

Duplicity

PythonFabric Boto

Pip

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Alfresco BART - Concepts• Full,

incremental• Backup sets• all• index (backup &

config)• db• Cs• files

• Dates• now, s, m, h, D,

W, M or Y• YYYY/MM/DD,

YYYY-MM-DD, MM/DD/YYYY, or MM-DD-YYYY

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Alfresco BART - Installation• Dependences • python + duplicity + DB dump/export

• Create PGP key• Copy files to Alfresco “scripts” dir• Configure • alfresco-bart.properties

• Add to crontab*• "0 5 * * * /path/to/alfresco-bart.sh

backup"

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Alfresco BART - UsageModes of work:• Backup: runs an incremental backup or a

full if first time• Restore: runs the restore, wizard if no

arguments• Verify: verifies the latest backup with

current files• Collection: shows all the backup sets in

the archive sorted by date and type (full or inc)

• List: lists the files currently backed up in the archive

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Alfresco BART – Disaster Recovery

Procedure1. *Backup destination must be remote2. Install and configure Alfresco BART as

the source.3. Copy the directory ~/.gnupg from de

original server to the new one (if gpg encryption is used).

4. Run the recovery wizard or command as usual.

5. Enjoy restoring your disaster recovery environment.

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Demo – Let’s Rock & Roll \m/

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Alfresco BART - TODO• Documentation• Validators• Postgresql and Oracle single

repo file recovery• Admin panel configuration• Suggestions?

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FAQ• Windows Support?• Really large repositories?• Alfresco versions supported

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Any questions?

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ConclusionsBackup thing my not be the most amazing task but… it

always could be worse!!

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Toni de la FuenteAlfresco Senior Solutions EngineerBlog: blyx.com Twitter: @ToniBlyx

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