Fabasoft Mindbreeze Enterprise - Backup and Restore (eng, Spring 2011)

Steps to Backup your configuration and indices

Save your existing configuration
Backup the following directories:

• Windows
  
• %ALLUSERSPROFILE%/Mindbreeze
• %APPDATA%/Mindbreeze of Mangement Node service user
• Linux
  
• /etc/mindbreeze

Backup your indices

Lookup the index URLs in your Fabasoft Mindbreeze Enterprise - Management Interface. In the following example, IDXURL should be substituted by an URL with index host and port (e.g. [http://indexserver.mycompany.com:23100).]
Open a Command Prompt on each Mindbreeze Node (host) and run the following steps for each index:

1. mescontrol IDXURL readonly
   
2. check the ERRORLEVEL environment variable
   
3. mescontrol IDXURL checkconsistency
   
4. check the ERRORLEVEL environment variable, if OK then backup data
   
5. mescontrol IDXURL readwrite
   
6. check the ERRORLEVEL environment variable
   

Note: multiple indices on one machine should be backed up consecutively.

Steps to restore from existing configuration and indices

1. Stop the Fabasoft Mindbreeze services
   
2. Restore your configuration files
   
3. Copy indices from backup
   
4. Start the Fabasoft Mindbreeze services