How to backup the permanent folder correctly under windows?

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Hello,

I’m trying to backup and restore xwiki under windows server.
I have no issue for config files and data base ( I’m using Mysql).

But I’m facing a horrible issue while trying to backup the permanent folder.

So I tried to Close tomcat service -> copy-paste the permanent folder -> change the path to the new copy in xwiki.proprieties -> start tomcat service and XWiki doesn’t open. I get HTTP ERROR 503 …

When I close tomcat -> change the path under xwiki.proprieties to the original folder -> start tomcat. XWiki works correctly.

How to backup the permanent folder correctly under windows?

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Just an idea: depending on WHERE you copy the data, the permissions will be inherited from the destination folder. This might prevent Tomcat to read those files, depending on which user the services is running … BTW: always use a tool that makes use of VSS to backup data

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Thanks Beat_Burgener, I think it’s not related to permissions.
Am I the only one who faces this issue ???

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I doubt that there is a technical issue with that. Try Windows Backup to backup and restore … if that does not work, then there is a real problem, otherwise it is probably related to your way of copying data … and I can only speculate that most xWiki installations are on Linux/Unix machines :wink:

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