[opencms-dev] Backup complete OC-structure

[Thomas M�rz]

"Thorsten K. Zeiller" <tk.zeiller at onlinehome.de> writes:

> we manage a huge site via OC (Tomcat 4.0.3, jdk 1.4.0). Backups were made up
> to now via the export-function. Now the site is so big, that sometimes the
> memory of the jvm is not enough, the writing of the .zip-file stops and
> leaves a corrupted file. The CATALINA_OPTS mem options are set to -Xmx256m.

Do not backup the whole site at once, but subfolders, e. g. an extra
pics backup, extra download backup ...

> alternative way to backup system and content data. Our approach would be to
> dump the whole database. Does anybody use a method like this? What else

Yes.

> would we need to restore data from a db-dump if necessary (obviously the
> "manifest.xml")?

No, but your webapps folder.