Backup and Restore Strategy

To properly back up WebCenter and ensure you can recover from a disaster, such as disk failure, there are 3 major components to be able to restore successfully and minimize your downtime:

• WebCenter application, configurations, and Virtual Sites
• WebCenter’s FileStore and Database
• OBGE/Automation Engine application, configurations, and Database

In the event of a disaster (disk or system failure) or in case you want to setup a test system that mimics your production environment from a specific point in time, then you will need to rely on whatever Backup Plan you have in place to successfully Restore to a specific state in time.

Backups can be performed using 3 methods: Full, Incremental and Differential. We suggest you choose one of the following Backup Modes:

• Always Full - you back up all files every time, whether some of them were changed or not.
• Full+Incremental - you create a Full backup relatively seldom: once a month, or once a week, or on achieving some important point in your work. You create all other backups with the Incremental mode, only backing up files changed since the last backup.

  This approach is good when the project includes too many files to do a Full backup each time. It is faster and takes less disk space than a Full backup. It also allows you to create backups more frequently.

  However, to restore all the files, you have to restore the last Full backup, then all the following Incremental backups.

• Full+Differential - is an intermediate mode. Each Differential backup includes all the project files changed since the last Full backup. It takes less time and space than Always Full, but more than Full+Incremental.

  The good thing is that restoring is simpler than for Full+Incremental - you will only have to restore the last Full backup and the last Differential backup.