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Administrating MarkLogic Server

Admin Interface for Database Restore

This section describes the Admin Interface used to restore a database.

To access the database restore page, follow these steps:

  1. Click Databases in the left tree menu. A list of databases appears.

  2. Click your target database.

  3. Click the Backup/Restore tab.

  4. Scroll down to the Restore section.

  5. Complete the Restore form as needed. The database restore settings are in the table.

  6. Click OK.

Database Restore Setting

Description

Restore from directory

Specifies the fully-qualified pathname for the directory from which to restore a backup. If the top-level backup directory is specified, then the restore operation restores the most recent backup. If a specific backup is specified, then that backup is restored.

Encryption password

An optional password to use for encrypting or decrypting backup files. Password must be between 16 and 1000 characters.

Include Replica Forests

Specifies whether to include the replica forests used for local-disk failover in the backup.

Use incremental backup

Specifies whether to use incremental backup.

Use journal archive

Specifies whether to enable the point-in-time recovery feature.

Forest topology changed

Specifies whether the forest topology has changed the last backup.

Include auxiliary databases

Specifies whether to include the auxiliary databases.

Restore to time

Specifies the time to which the database is to be restored. Leave blank for latest restore time.