Backup Order

When performing a database backup, it is critical to synchronize backup data for Laserfiche volumes with the information stored by your DBMS. By keeping volume and database backups consistent, you can ensure a quick and easy recovery. If these backups are not synchronized, the volume may be missing files that are in the database or it may contain files that are no longer in the database.

For example, if your volume data was backed up at 8 P.M. while your database was not backed up until 11 P.M., and if changes continued to take place to the repository in between those times, recovery may generate a Laserfiche repository with missing data or data that is not associated with the repository. Documents that were added between the volume backup and the database backup will be reflected in the folder structure, but will be missing all pages and text. It may be impossible to retrieve the contents of these documents. Therefore, it is vital to ensure that backups are synchronized.

The only way you can ensure that volume and database backups are synchronized is to perform them when the repository is not in use, through one of several means. You can temporarily disable the volumes, you can temporarily set the Everyone group to read-only, or you can take your repository offline. For information on disabling volumes, see the Disabling a Volume section.

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