Set up periodic backup for important data:

  • Database and log files of your graph database.
  • Database and log files of Graphlytic. The database contains users, groups, saved visualizations, ETL jobs, and all settings.

Graphlytic Backup

  1. Stop Graphlytic. See Ubu: 4. Stop Graphlytic and "graphlytic.conf"
  2. Copy these directories to backup storage (location can be different if you change it during installation process):
    • <GL_HOME>
    • <main.dataDir>
    • <main.logDir>
    • <main.widgetsDir>
    • <main.iconsDir>
  3. Start Graphlytic. See Ubu: 3. Start Graphlytic

Restore backup

  1. Stop Graphlytic. See Ubu: 4. Stop Graphlytic

  2. Copy directories from backup storage into correct locations (location can be different if you change it during installation process). You can also set correct permissions:

    $ sudo chown -R graphlytic:graphlytic /usr/share/graphlytic /var/log/graphlytic
  3. Start Graphlytic. See Ubu: 3. Start Graphlytic