Help needed with AEM 6.2 backup

[shab_ravi]

We have recently migrated our AEM 5.6 environment to AEM 6.2 and facing an issue with author backup.

We are trying to take online backup of our author instance ( which is around 100G ) using curl command with a delay set to zero.

The issue is that the backup script kicks in and stalls at around 62G and does not get completed. Has anyone seen this before and could someone please advise what might be going wrong or how to troubleshoot this issue.

[dinesh_sundaram]

can you share the backup curl command you used?

[Opkar_Gill]

Hi,

you say the repository is 100GB is the datastore stored in the repository, it's usually recommended to use an external DS with OAK. You could take a file system snapshot, which is supported with OAK [0].

Regards,

Opkar

[0] https://docs.adobe.com/docs/en/aem/6-2/administer/operations/backup-and-restore.html?wcmmode=disable... Snapshot Backup

[smacdonald2008]

Also the Backup docs provide the proper way of doing it. I do not believe it mentions using CURL.

Backup and Restore

The procedure is within AEM UI. For example:

To create a backup:

1. Log in to AEM as the administrator.
2. Go to Tools - Operations - Backup.
3. ....