[jira] Created: (JCR-1801) Support Online Backup

["Thomas Mueller (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Support Online Backup
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                 Key: JCR-1801
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCR-1801
             Project: Jackrabbit
          Issue Type: New Feature
          Components: clustering, jackrabbit-core
            Reporter: Thomas Mueller
            Priority: Minor


There is no 'good' way to create an online backup for Jackrabbit. Currently you need to basically stop the repository before backing up the data, or at least make sure in the application that nobody writes to the repository.

One solution is to add a feature to block write access to the repository until the backup is complete.

Example configuration: database persistence manager, Lucene index, data store.


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[jira] Commented: (JCR-1801) Support Online Backup

["Antonio Martinez-Navarro (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Antonio Martinez-Navarro commented on JCR-1801:
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This new feature would be usefull in two scenarios: "Online Backup" and "Online Addition of Cluster Node".

In both cases the problem is that we need to make a copy of the local data (i.e, repository dir, revision.log file and workspaces dir), guaranteeing that it is in sync with the DB at the time of the snapshot. 
The reason why this is needed is is because in large DBs (for example I have tested with  20G DB), indexing (with local indexing data missing) would take more than 3 hours, and we can run out of Heap (tested with 2G Heap)

For Online Backup, the user application will backup both the DB and the local index data

For "Online Addition of Cluster Node", the user application will backup ONLY the local data. This snapshot of local data can then be copied by the user to the new cluster node. When the new cluster node comes up, it will have to synchronize to the latest snapshot (which can have changes as the cluster is not stopped), but if the difference is small there should be no problem.


> Support Online Backup
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>
>                 Key: JCR-1801
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCR-1801
>             Project: Jackrabbit
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: clustering, jackrabbit-core
>            Reporter: Thomas Mueller
>            Priority: Minor
>
> There is no 'good' way to create an online backup for Jackrabbit. Currently you need to basically stop the repository before backing up the data, or at least make sure in the application that nobody writes to the repository.
> One solution is to add a feature to block write access to the repository until the backup is complete.
> Example configuration: database persistence manager, Lucene index, data store.

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