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Trac Backup
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Trac backups are a copied snapshot of the entire project environment directory, including the database. Backups can be created using the hotcopy
command of trac-admin.
Note: Trac uses the hotcopy
nomenclature to match that of Subversion.
Creating a Backup
Create a backup of a live TracEnvironment by running:
$ trac-admin /path/to/projenv hotcopy /path/to/backupdir
The database will be locked while hotcopy is running.
The resulting backup directory is safe to handle using standard file-based backup tools like tar
or dump
/restore
.
Please note, the hotcopy
command will not overwrite a target directory. When the target exists the operation will end with an error: Command failed: [Errno 17] File exists:
This is discussed in #3198.
Restoring a Backup
To restore an environment from a backup, stop the process running Trac, ie the web server or tracd, restore the contents of your backup to your project environment directory and restart the process.
If you are using a database other than SQLite, you'll need to restore the database from the dump file. The dump file is saved in the environment db
directory.
To restore a PostgreSQL database backup, use the command:
$ psql -U <user> -d <database> -f /path/to/postgresql.dump
The <database>
option is the same as the database connection string in the [trac] database option of the project's trac.ini
file.
Similarly, for MySQL:
$ mysql -u <user> -p <database> < /path/to/mysql.dump
See also: TracAdmin, TracEnvironment, TracMigrate