WebGISDr backup and restore on the same network.

E_J_McNaughton — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 22:53:06 GMT

I have successfully created a backup of my production Environment using the WebGISDR tool. I have been told I can restore to a new environment in the same network aliasing the new servers with host files. Has anyone successfully restored this type of configuration?

Re: WebGISDr backup and restore on the same network.

JonathanQuinn — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 00:25:13 GMT

Are you running into an issue with that workflow? The main thing is that you need to make sure that the internal URLs that your environment is configured with don't resolve to the original primary environment. As a basic example:

The right hand side is production, the left hand side is a new standby environment. The web adaptor in the second environment has it's own hostname, but you're telling m2.domain.com to communicate with the web adaptor machine through an entry in the etc\hosts file. ArcGIS Enterprise is configured to use the "enterprise.domain.com" FQDN, but those requests will be routed to the standby site based on the etc\hosts entries.

Another approach, if you can manage the downtime, is while configuring the standby, configure your reverse proxy to send traffic to the standby machines, just until you configure the environment. Once that's done, you can redirect traffic back to your original environment.

Another key point is that the internal URLs, (privatePortalURL and the admin URL used in federation), must resolve to the standby environment via either etc\hosts entries, by configuring them to point to the machines directly, (m2.domain.com:6443/m2.domain.com:7443), or by having separate components that can handle that traffic.

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