Database Server

All publication content other than images and media files are stored in the database. Database backups should be carried out every day, ideally at a time of day when little new content is created.

For information on how to carry out and verify database backups, see the documentation for your particular database server.

Note that if your database server needs to be shut down during backups, then your publications will be partly inaccessible to users. Partly inaccessible means:

  • No updates will be possible

  • Any previously accessed pages that have not been removed from the cache will be accessible to readers; others pages will not be accessible.

Most database servers do, however, support online backup.