Author backup related question/doubt

[askdctm]

Hi All,

Suppose we have cq instance(s) set up in such a way that we have single author[with secondary author serving as a backup] and multiple publish instances. My doubts as below :

1] Why is it essential that we should have an author backup on a weekly/daily basis? Will it not slow down the primary production author instance.

2] Which are the various methods/modes which we can use for backing up author instance.

3] Also, what exactly are the folders under \author\crx-quickstart\repository that will be backed up.

4] Any good documentation/reference to any article referring to this, will be helpful.

[Pawan-Gupta · Accepted solution]

Hello,

The question you asked is very generic because server topology and logical placement completely depend on type of implemention and integration you have. As a standard if you have 6.0 refer this http://docs.adobe.com/docs/en/aem/6-1/deploy/recommended-deploys.html will give you good understand.

Thanks,

Pawan

[Opkar_Gill]

Hi,

why you have a daily/weekly backup of any system should be obvious.

You would not take the backup, be it offline or online, during peak load periods. Ideally you would do it overnight, or during low load. 

The documentation is here: http://docs.adobe.com/docs/en/aem/6-0/administer/content/backup-and-restore.html

details on what is backed up and the various procedures can be found in the link above.

Regards,

Opkar

[askdctm]

Hi,

Thank you for your reply.

Have heard some people say  Robocopy job does the back up from primary author to secondary author.

- Is it something like this is not provided by Adobe and it is a custom implementation done?

- Any details on this mode would be helpful.

[Opkar_Gill]

askdctm wrote...

Hi,

Thank you for your reply.

Have heard some people say  Robocopy job does the back up from primary author to secondary author.

- Is it something like this is not provided by Adobe and it is a custom implementation done?

- Any details on this mode would be helpful.

Can you provide a reference to use of Robocopy and AEM?

There is no backup from Primary to Secondary in AEM, there is a synchronisation with TarMK Failover, where the standby instance get updates from the primary. You still need to plan your backup process. But this would provide you with a secondary instance which was up to date with the primary.

Do you really require the author instance to be available 24/7?