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Redmine Cookbook

By : Shamasis Bhattacharya
Book Image

Redmine Cookbook

By: Shamasis Bhattacharya

Overview of this book

In a variety of online project management tools, Redmine markets itself as offering flexibility. Choosing the right management tool can mean the difference between the success and failure of a project. Flexible project management tools bend themselves to fit your needs, whether that’s communication regarding a simple project, or collaboration, or more complex project methodology such as SCRUM, or an issue-code relationship, or the need of different methodology for your project. Whether you are project manager or system administrator, this book provides valuable recipes to get the best possible performance out of your team, organization, infrastructure, and Redmine itself. Through a series of carefully crafted recipes covering the nitty-gritty of Redmine, you’ll be guided through the installation of Redmine, as well as how to fine-tune and customize your Redmine installation. Finally, we walk you through integrating Redmine with other softwares and databases like Tortoise SVN and Visual Studio and troubleshooting Redmine.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Redmine Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Recovering from system failure


Your hardware malfunctioned, server got hacked, or Redmine does not work after upgrade, and of course, backup is unavailable for some reason. System failure does not necessarily mean that you have lost all your Redmine data and files.

Getting ready

Prepare a new system with a blank Redmine installed or hard drive space to save Redmine data, which will be used after reinstallation.

How to do it…

Recovering from system failure should not be too hard considering that you can still access the hard drive on which Redmine data is stored. The steps to recover from failure would be, as follows:

  1. Export the database or at least copy its files; usually for MySQL databases, data is stored in the frm and ibd files located in /var/lib/mysql or elsewhere depending upon system configuration.

  2. Copy everything from the Redmine installation root/files directory.

  3. Copy configuration files database.yml, configuration.yml, and environment.rb.

  4. Copy plugins folders.

  5. Install blank Redmine, the...