What are the suggested Backup/Restore/Disaster Recovery/Rollback solutions for Lighthouse?

Backup Procedures:

  1. Follow appropriate database backup procedures.

    Note: If your database server doesn't handle live backups you should schedule Lighthouse downtime to accomplish the full backup.

  2. Follow appropriate application server backup procedures.

  3. During the upgrade process, it is suggested that you back up the lighthouse directory in addition to the database backup.

Disaster Recovery:

  1. Shut down Lighthouse

  2. Follow application server recovery procedures

    If there are problems with the lighthouse package, you can reinstall Lighthouse and patches. If you resort to this, remember to restore your site customizations as well.

  3. Follow database recovery procedures

Rollback Procedures:

  1. This is completely database based. A good daily backup media rotation will provide a rollback strategy.

  2. Shut down lighthouse

  3. Restore the repository to the desired version

  4. Restart lighthouse

As with any other problem, Waveset Support can be contacted to work through any such issues. Many problems can be repaired, if detected early enough, without having to go resort to database backup/restore recovery.