Backup
Triplestore
In case you are using the default KiWi backend, it actually uses a relational database.
So you can use the tools already offered by them, in case of !PostgreSQL:
sudo -u postgres pg_dump NAME -F c -Z 9 > path/to/backup/marmotta-db-NAME-backup-YYYYMMDD.gz
This concrete command produces a custom-format dump, which is not a sql script, but instead must be restored by executing something like:
sudo -u postgres pg_restore -d NAME marmotta-db-NAME-backup-YYYYMMDD.gz
PostgreSQL offers a quite good documentation about dump. The same functionality is also offered by the other database vendors supported by Marmotta, like MySQL.
Home directory
Marmotta uses a home directory where it stores some things (logs and so) that you may want to have a backup. The most important file there is system-config.properties, since it's the file containing all Marmotta configurations.
For taking a snapshot of the directory you can take the way you prefer, for instance:
tar cf - /path/to/marmotta/home | gzip > marmotta-home-backup-YYYYMMDD.tar.gz
Security
Change the admin password
Access the admin interface ad login as admin, and then navigate to: users -> me
http://host/marmotta/user/me.html
Change lost admin password
In case you lost the admin password, you would need to change it manually in the settings by:
- Stop Marmotta
2. Change the password (read bellow) 3. Start Marmotta again
In the file /path/to/lmf/home/system-config.properties there is a key 'user.admin.pwhash', which follows the following schema:
user.admin.pwhash = :hashtype::password
By default the system encodes passwords using sha1, so you should have something like:
user.admin.pwhash = :sha1::3eac84188a085a656b8720e11b8525dd30bcd97f
In any unix-based system you can easily generate the sha1 hash by executing:
echo -n "yournewpassword" | sha1sum
Also plain text passwords are allowed, but it's not recommendable for production systems:
user.admin.pwhash = :plain::yournewpassword