Appian Daily backups

RE: Appian Daily backups

Tejas Kargutkar — Wed, 27 May 2020 20:56:45 GMT

Jeff, I personally do not have experience using rsync so I won't be able to comment on that. You may need to test it to ensure it works as expected.
Multi server install should not have an affect as long as the data backed up from all servers is from the same timestamp. In addition make sure you also back up you primary database at the same time.

RE: Appian Daily backups

jesusa310 — Wed, 27 May 2020 20:43:45 GMT

Hi Jeff, you can find the list of files to backup here

https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/20.1/Configuring_Backup_and_Restoration.html

There is a script that you can configure and it collects all the files for you. I have tested it and works ok. However it doesnt copy extra custom files that you might have in your system. As you are on a distribuited environment I would be careful. May be Tejas or someone with experience backing up distributed Appian systems can give a better advice. I will also be interested in knowing more.

RE: Appian Daily backups

jeffh0004 — Wed, 27 May 2020 12:29:18 GMT

Hi Tejas, we would like to use the method you suggest here and use rsync. From where can we get a list of directories/files that would need to be backed up? also, we have a multinode installation and so have a shared disk; do you think that changes anything with respect to using rsync?

Thanks,

Jeff.

RE: Appian Daily backups

Tejas Kargutkar — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 15:46:37 GMT

Technically it should be fine but bear in mind that you would be backing up multiple GBs worth of unnecessary data everyday which will slow down the backup process and also waste disk space.

Something you can explore is storing kdbs,_admin,kafka logs and other service manager related data on a shared/network drive and take regular backups of this drive.