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The Oracle Universal Content Management Handbook

By : Dmitri Khanine
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The Oracle Universal Content Management Handbook

By: Dmitri Khanine

Overview of this book

Oracle UCM is a world-leading Enterprise Content Management platform. From Document Management, Web, Records, and more—Oracle has got all your business needs covered. Oracle UCM enables your organization to efficiently manage, store, preserve, and deliver content and documents. Written by Oracle ACE Dmitri Khanine, this book is a complete practical guide to building an ECM system and successfully configuring, administering, and operating it. It also shows you how to efficiently manage your organization's content and customize the UCM to fit your needs. This book wastes no time in getting you up and running and dives straight into the installation of the content server in Chapter 1. In the second chapter, you will master all the major controls and the admin interface. Metadata—a very important ingredient of any ECM—is thoroughly covered in Chapter 3. The book then moves on to the important tasks of securing your ECM system, configuring and managing workflows, and understanding and implementing virtual folders. The book also gives you an under-the-hood view of Stellent in Chapter 7. In the later chapters, you will learn how to migrate content like a pro and easily customize Oracle ECM. A bonus addition to the book is the final chapter, which is an easy-to-follow primer on web content management.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
The Oracle Universal Content Management Handbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Acknowledgement
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Getting Up and Running
Exploring Oracle UCM Product Offering
Index

Chapter 8. Backup, Restore, and Content Migration

In the previous chapter we took a good look at the Content Server file system. We now know where and how the content is actually stored. If you were following the sequence of chapters, by now you're likely to have some configuration changes, metadata and content that you need to back up. And almost certainly, you have a bunch of existing content that you'd like to bring over to your new Oracle UCM. If any of this is true, this chapter will be very timely, because it will show you:

  • The best strategy for protecting your system from user errors, software malfunctions, and hardware crushes (skip this step and you'll inevitably lose some critical data forever).

  • A simple coding shortcut that gives you an almost unfair advantage when migrating content. I've used it to migrate content over 16 times faster than my client's previous (large and reputable) consultant planned to.

  • How to avoid placing your sensitive business content on public facing servers...