The backup of eXo Platform instance involves backing up the databases and the file systems for the JCR index and value storage. The following topics are covered in this chapter:
The gatein.data.dir variable is defined in the configuration.properties file and by default points to the $APPSEVERHOME/gatein/data folder.
You can use the .tar command for the file backup from your application server home dir:
tar cvjf gatein-backup.tar.bz gatein/data