Restoring a database using loaddb RESTORE
This procedure restores SDL LiveContent Reach databases that you have previously backed up either through the automated or manual process.
Before you begin
Backups can be restored to another system, even if the system that you restore the backup to has a different operating system than the computer on which the backup was created.
If the backup to be restored includes user information and credentials collection (/db/system), you must know the admin password at the time the database was backed up, as that password will be restored during the restore procedure.
About this task
loaddb...RESTORE command restores the contents of a backed up file or folder, whether it was a full database backup or a backup of a sub-collection of a database. However, when restoring a full database backup, we recommend that you
- delete the existing database. See Deleting the database.
restore the backup using the eXist client in embedded mode. See Restoring the database using eXist (embedded).
The loaddb...RESTORE command uses same xmlrpc connection to the database that loaddb...BACKUP uses, and it shares the same protocol constraint: it cannot be run over https.
This procedure restores the backed-up database. Although it is possible to restore to a remote system, using the -Dlc.host argument, we do not recommend that you do so.