Question

Best way to import old volume files?

Laserfiche Administration Backup and Recovery

Updated March 15, 2016

asked on March 15, 2016 • Show version history

I have a client that had a hardware failure. He did not have a good backup plan in place so SQL was not backing up properly. He does have the old volume files and want to know the best way to get that back into the repository. As far as I know, all the metadata is stored in the SQL database, is that correct. Does anyone have a recommendation on the best way to handle this situation. Thank you.

0 0

Replies

replied on March 15, 2016

Yeah, SQL is going to have everything you need besides the images. Was the volume exported first or is it just the volume file.

If the volume was exported you can import it into a fresh repository. If it is just a normal volume folder then I don't believe you have any options other than to get that SQL backup. Creating a new volumn in Laserfiche and pointing to that path is not going to give you the folders, names, or metadata.

1 0

replied on March 15, 2016

Also see this related question: https://answers.laserfiche.com/questions/78961/Recreate-Database

0 0

replied on March 15, 2016

This was a full hardware failure. They lost the SQL database. They only have the volume files. So pretty much that means they manually put the images back in and have to recreate the folders and metadata right?

0 0

replied on March 15, 2016

Unfortunately that's right. Everything other than the page images is stored in SQL. The creation time for the image files might help you a bit, in the sense that pages scanned at the same time will have similar creation times on the volume.

0 0

You are not allowed to follow up in this post.

Question

Question

Best way to import old volume files?

Replies

Sign in to reply to this post.