Backup and restore a standard Debian-based Cinnamon repository

Backup

• Switch to superuser context, using the su command.
• Create a file /opt/cinnamon/cinnamon-system/backup.sh with the following content:

  killall -SIGTERM supervise
  kill $(ps aux | grep mono | awk '{print $2}')
  service tomcat stop
  
  # Dump DB into cinnamon-data folder
  export PGPASSWORD=<postgres_password>
  pg_dump -U postgres  -h localhost  -w content > /opt/cinnamon/cinnamon-data/content.sql
  export PGPASSWORD=
  
  # Delete empty folders in content store and archive data files in file system:
  find /opt/cinnamon/cinnamon-data/content -empty -type d -delete
  
  # rsync over ssh
  # this is available by many hosting providers and suits the backup needs of a Cinnamon repository very well
  # the ssh key of the target server must be confirmed
  rsync -av --delete --rsh="/usr/bin/sshpass -p <password> ssh -p23"  /opt/cinnamon/cinnamon-data/ <storage_url>
  
  service tomcat start
  
  sleep 60
  supervise /opt/cae/bin &
  

• Set the permissions on the file to EXECUTE for root.

IMPORTANT: A password for the postgres user must be specified to enable pg_dump.

• Create a cron job running backup.sh at a suitable time.
• If the hosting provider offers such functionality, configure daily snapshots of the backup target at a time when all backups have been finished.

Restore

• Delete old DB and create a new one

  service tomcat stop
  sudo -u postgres psql
  drop database content;
  \q
  sudo -u postgres psql template1
  create database content with owner=cinnamon;
  \q
  sudo -u postgres psql content < /home/install/content.sql
  

• Restore the content

  rsync -avW /path/to/backup/cinnamon-data /opt/cinnamon
  

updates the cinnamon-data folder inside /opt/cinnamon.

Depending on where the content is available, restore it to the original content path (/opt/cinnamon/cinnamon-data/content).

NOTE: In the configuration shown in the backup documentation, restore is most easily done by a reverse rsync command.

NOTE: Make sure that the account owning tomcat has read and write permission on the content.

Recreate the index

NOTE: If the system to restore to has no index for the restored repository yet, no further action has to be taken. In case of a restore over an existing repository, existing index files should be deleted before restore.

sudo -u postgres psql content
insert into index_jobs select id,false,'cinnamon.ObjectSystemData',id from objects;
insert into index_jobs select id,false,'cinnamon.Folder',id from folders;