[GeoNetwork-users] Saving and restoring GeoNetwork

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1

It is not clear to me how one would backup and then restore a GeoNetwork instance, say to move it from a development to a production machine or to perform a restore in case of disk corruption. I see that certain metadata files through a query can be saved by GAST, but not all files. Moreover, one needs to save all configuration info for harvest and site administration -- essentially all the data in the database and Lucene.

How have other users transferred full GeoNetwork instances from one host to another?

Doug.

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Douglas D. Nebert
Senior Advisor for Geospatial Technology, System-of-Systems Architect
FGDC Secretariat T:703 648 4151 F:703 648-5755 C:703 459-5860

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Hi Doug,

In general, as you indicated, I too would use GAST to export then import all metadata records. However, we've recently "moved" GeoNetwork from test to production using the following steps (the text is from our developer, Chris. H.):

It's the database folks that make it easy here. I put in a service request to copy the entire schema from test to prod and it magically gets done. :slight_smile: If one is using the McKoi database that comes default with GeoNetwork, there is some documentation for it here: http://www.mckoi.com. One should probably switch to something like MySQL, as some of the other users have done. Then, follow the backup/restore process for that database. The images are stored on the file system and need to be backed up separately. We haven't worried about copying the Lucene data, as rebuilding it hasn't taken very long.

Our process for moving to production was:
Copy everything in the database to a production server. Copy the images to the new server. Update various configuration settings and paths (I have an Ant script to manage these settings)
  Database connection info in GeoNetwork's config.xml to point to the new database
  GeoNetwork's host in the settings table (or in the ui)
  GeoServer url in intermap config
  Proxy base url in GeoServer's config
  GeoServer's log file location

Regards, Bob

Bob Nutsch
GIS Coordinator
State of North Dakota
Phone: (701) 328-3212
bnutsch@anonymised.com
www.nd.gov/gis

-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Nebert [mailto:ddnebert@anonymised.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 12:56 PM
To: geonetwork-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [GeoNetwork-users] Saving and restoring GeoNetwork

It is not clear to me how one would backup and then restore a GeoNetwork
instance, say to move it from a development to a production machine or
to perform a restore in case of disk corruption. I see that certain
metadata files through a query can be saved by GAST, but not all files.
Moreover, one needs to save all configuration info for harvest and site
administration -- essentially all the data in the database and Lucene.

How have other users transferred full GeoNetwork instances from one host
to another?

Doug.

--
Douglas D. Nebert
Senior Advisor for Geospatial Technology, System-of-Systems Architect
FGDC Secretariat T:703 648 4151 F:703 648-5755 C:703 459-5860

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hi Doug,

in the Dutch INSPIRE portal project www.nationaalgeoregister.nl we have
moved several times from one server to another. We've always dumped the DB
content, than imported that into the DB on the new server. Using GAST to
export all metadata records will give you only that, but you'll want the
complete DB contents, including your users, groups and harvesting settings
etc.

After importing you may need to adjust some of the settings in the admin's
settings page, such as the server URL if you're not using a domain name.

The procedure to export and import the complete DB depends on what brand
you're using, but in general it should be a simple operation.

If you're also moving from one make of DB to another, the process may be
slightly more involved. For an example on how to move from a MySQL to a
Postgres DB, see the description at http://geonetwork.tv/postgres/.

Kind regards
Heikki Doeleman

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Nutsch, Bob D. <bnutsch@anonymised.com> wrote:

Hi Doug,

In general, as you indicated, I too would use GAST to export then import
all metadata records. However, we've recently "moved" GeoNetwork from test
to production using the following steps (the text is from our developer,
Chris. H.):

It's the database folks that make it easy here. I put in a service request
to copy the entire schema from test to prod and it magically gets done. :slight_smile:
If one is using the McKoi database that comes default with GeoNetwork, there
is some documentation for it here: http://www.mckoi.com. One should
probably switch to something like MySQL, as some of the other users have
done. Then, follow the backup/restore process for that database. The images
are stored on the file system and need to be backed up separately. We
haven't worried about copying the Lucene data, as rebuilding it hasn't taken
very long.

Our process for moving to production was:
Copy everything in the database to a production server. Copy the images to
the new server. Update various configuration settings and paths (I have an
Ant script to manage these settings)
       Database connection info in GeoNetwork's config.xml to point to the
new database
       GeoNetwork's host in the settings table (or in the ui)
       GeoServer url in intermap config
       Proxy base url in GeoServer's config
       GeoServer's log file location

Regards, Bob

Bob Nutsch
GIS Coordinator
State of North Dakota
Phone: (701) 328-3212
bnutsch@anonymised.com
www.nd.gov/gis

-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Nebert [mailto:ddnebert@anonymised.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 12:56 PM
To: geonetwork-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [GeoNetwork-users] Saving and restoring GeoNetwork

It is not clear to me how one would backup and then restore a GeoNetwork
instance, say to move it from a development to a production machine or
to perform a restore in case of disk corruption. I see that certain
metadata files through a query can be saved by GAST, but not all files.
Moreover, one needs to save all configuration info for harvest and site
administration -- essentially all the data in the database and Lucene.

How have other users transferred full GeoNetwork instances from one host
to another?

Doug.

--
Douglas D. Nebert
Senior Advisor for Geospatial Technology, System-of-Systems Architect
FGDC Secretariat T:703 648 4151 F:703 648-5755 C:703 459-5860

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Dear users,

Something related about moving db, from our GN use.

Yesterday we moved our GN-Oracle db from one server to another
and all went fine. We copied the whole db schema to the new server using the Oracle sqldeveloper tool and then used GAST to point to the new server/db.

Andrew
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To: "Nutsch, Bob D." <bnutsch@anonymised.com>
Cc: <geonetwork-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 4:22 AM
Subject: Re: [GeoNetwork-users] Saving and restoring GeoNetwork

hi Doug,

in the Dutch INSPIRE portal project www.nationaalgeoregister.nl we have
moved several times from one server to another. We've always dumped the DB
content, than imported that into the DB on the new server. Using GAST to
export all metadata records will give you only that, but you'll want the
complete DB contents, including your users, groups and harvesting settings
etc.

After importing you may need to adjust some of the settings in the admin's
settings page, such as the server URL if you're not using a domain name.

The procedure to export and import the complete DB depends on what brand
you're using, but in general it should be a simple operation.

If you're also moving from one make of DB to another, the process may be
slightly more involved. For an example on how to move from a MySQL to a
Postgres DB, see the description at http://geonetwork.tv/postgres/.

Kind regards
Heikki Doeleman

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Nutsch, Bob D. <bnutsch@anonymised.com> wrote:

Hi Doug,

In general, as you indicated, I too would use GAST to export then import
all metadata records. However, we've recently "moved" GeoNetwork from test
to production using the following steps (the text is from our developer,
Chris. H.):

It's the database folks that make it easy here. I put in a service request
to copy the entire schema from test to prod and it magically gets done. :slight_smile:
If one is using the McKoi database that comes default with GeoNetwork, there
is some documentation for it here: http://www.mckoi.com. One should
probably switch to something like MySQL, as some of the other users have
done. Then, follow the backup/restore process for that database. The images
are stored on the file system and need to be backed up separately. We
haven't worried about copying the Lucene data, as rebuilding it hasn't taken
very long.

Our process for moving to production was:
Copy everything in the database to a production server. Copy the images to
the new server. Update various configuration settings and paths (I have an
Ant script to manage these settings)
       Database connection info in GeoNetwork's config.xml to point to the
new database
       GeoNetwork's host in the settings table (or in the ui)
       GeoServer url in intermap config
       Proxy base url in GeoServer's config
       GeoServer's log file location

Regards, Bob

Bob Nutsch
GIS Coordinator
State of North Dakota
Phone: (701) 328-3212
bnutsch@anonymised.com
www.nd.gov/gis

-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Nebert [mailto:ddnebert@anonymised.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 12:56 PM
To: geonetwork-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [GeoNetwork-users] Saving and restoring GeoNetwork

It is not clear to me how one would backup and then restore a GeoNetwork
instance, say to move it from a development to a production machine or
to perform a restore in case of disk corruption. I see that certain
metadata files through a query can be saved by GAST, but not all files.
Moreover, one needs to save all configuration info for harvest and site
administration -- essentially all the data in the database and Lucene.

How have other users transferred full GeoNetwork instances from one host
to another?

Doug.

--
Douglas D. Nebert
Senior Advisor for Geospatial Technology, System-of-Systems Architect
FGDC Secretariat T:703 648 4151 F:703 648-5755 C:703 459-5860

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