Backing up your dataΒΆ
Generally, the most important Google Earth Enterprise Server data is
all within the /var
directory. If you perform regular backups
of /var
, that covers most of the server data. Google
recommends that you also back up the following directories:
/etc
/opt/google/gehttpd/conf
/opt/google/gehttpd/conf.d
/opt/google/getomcat/conf
/opt/google/gehttpd/htdocs
With regard to Google Earth Enterprise Fusion data, Google
strongly recommends that you back up all of your original source
data (vector and raster). In addition, Google encourages you to
back up all of the .xml
files within your asset root(s). In
theory, if you have the source data and the asset root .xml
files, everything else can be reconstructed. Google Earth
Enterprise does not include any tools for doing such a
reconstruction, but the data is there and it could be done, if
necessary.
You do not need to back up your publish root(s), since there is nothing there that cannot be recreated. If you have the space and want to back them up, however, recovery will be faster, but it is not necessary.
Many Google Earth Enterprise users also back up their product
files. These are the low-level files that result from building
resources (for example, .kip
, .ktp
, .kmp
, .kvp
).
That way, if you do need to reconstruct, you can import the
product files (rather than raw source files) to recreate the
resources. This will save you some build time.