Backup and restore

By: Filip Van Tittelboom user 26 Jan 2016 at 9:50 a.m. CST

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I'm having a hard time coming up with a decent backup restore strategy for Gluu. Right now I do a /opt/opendj/bin/backup -a -d (= all) to a directory and send it to an object storage. The thing is, if I destroy my Gluu machine and rebuild it from scratch, the backed-up OpenDJ dirs are useless, because apparently there are tons of hard-coded identifiers in the app used which do not match the data in OpenDJ anymore. I then also saved a copy of the /opt/gluu-server24/install/community-edition-setup/setup.properties.last file. I then copy it to /opt/gluu-server24/install/setup.properties, run the setup.py again... but Gluu doesn't come up anymore at all (even though it correctlty started). Errors like: ``` ERROR [org.gluu.oxtrust.config.OxTrustConfiguration] Failed to load application configuration from file: /opt/tomcat/conf/oxtrust-config.json ERROR [org.gluu.oxtrust.config.OxTrustConfiguration] Failed to load configuration from LDAP. Please fix it!!!. ``` But that file doesn't exist on other working Gluu instances. Do you have any advice on doing a decent backup/restore?
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By Aliaksandr Samuseu staff 26 Jan 2016 at 10:39 a.m. CST

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Hi, Filip. So far, the best backup strategy I've heard of is probably to backup your whole Gluu CE vm, or at least its core partitions (those that are required to re-build the exact environment). There are certain export/import scripts, but I believe they were crafted for specific Gluu versions (like, for migrate your settings from 2.3.x to 2.4, or to upgrade from 2.4.0 to 2.4.1), so they may not qualify for a solid backup/restore strategy. May be Mike will be able to answer this question (as he is the author of them)?

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