Making Backups of a Forest
MarkLogic Server backs up forest data by transactionally creating an image copy of a specified forest. You can back up data at the granularity of a forest or of a database. Use the Admin Interface to back up a forest.
Forest-level backups only back up the data in a forest, and are not guaranteed to have a consistent database state to restore. The data in the forest is consistent, but other parts of the database (other forests, the schema database, and so on) might be different when you restore the data. For a guaranteed consistent backup, perform a complete database backup For information on backing up a database, see Backing Up and Restoring a Database.
Note
Forest backups do not provide a journal archive feature, as described for database backups in Backing Up and Restoring a Database. However, you can manually invoke the xdmp:start-journal-archiving function during a forest backup to make use of journal archiving with your forest backups.
This section describes the forest backup procedures.