How to backup and restore data on NavVis IVION On-Premise

Introduction

This is a description of a recommended workflow to backup and restore data.

Note: If you only want to move the Datasets (with alignment, maps and NavGraph), it is easier to use Bundles to transfer the data.

Scope

Solution applies to: NavVis IVION On-Premise

Procedure

Back up and restore from local instance:

This workflow applies when you want to move the data such as POIs and it's contents, permissions and users.

1. Create instance backup (without datasets)

   sudo navvis-instance backup INSTANCE_NAME

2. Restore the backup using the flag -d --> this creates a new instance which doesn't contain the datasets, datasets can be copied in the data location of the instance separately

   sudo navvis-instance restore INSTANCE_NAME -d /mnt/localdisk/test_restore/datasets_web/ -f /srv/backup/backup_ts.se664_2020-03-17_13.40.09.tar.bz2

It is important that the -d flag can be used only when the backup does not contain data. If the backup contains data, and you want to restore it into a specific datasets_web folder that already exists, this is not supported. This is why you see this message during restore:

Note: restoring an instance with option --data-dir, data files contained in backup (if any) will not be unpacked.

Extra (less efficient): Alternatively to the workflow above, you could restore the backup with data into a new folder if you use the flag -r, this will create a new root directory for the project in the specified location.

sudo navvis-instance restore INSTANCE_NAME -f /mnt/localdisk/backup.tar -r /mnt/localdisk/folder_restore2

Result will be an instance with the following data path:

/mnt/localdisk/folder_restore2/web_ts.restoredata2/datasets_web