Backup to external disks on rotation

Hi everyone,
I was wondering if anyone could provide some step-by-step instructions how to set up the Archiver to export everything (files,users,tables,views,profiles,rules,fields e.t.c.) in a directory, so that I can set a Scheduler task to copy that directory to external disks on rotation.
My metadata and files are saved in the database (SecureFilesFS).
I presume it's not something very difficult to do?
Regards,
gpapadopoulos

Hi
For the users,tables,views,profiles,rules,fields part the easiest way would be to create CMU bundles on a scheduled basis so that it does not use up a lot of CS resource and also you can get the zip file for this which will be saving quite a lot of physical space as well .
As for the contents schedule my recommendation would be as follows (not that this is an ideal one but I think very effective) :
1 . Create an archive rule and schedule to run at a particular point of time every day . This will create the archives.hda which can be backed up as a physical backup to be restored as and when needed.
2. Create a physical file system backup for weblayout/ vault directories for the same as Archiver and save that to some other file location so that the contents are backed up .
3. Create a DB backup for the metadata at the same time as archiver / physical file so that all the metadata n db related information as well is backed up for restoration .
Another way of doing is to have the FileStoreProvider been used to redirect the contents to a secure file location which is pretty robust so that it can be retrieved back later on but even in this CMU should be run along with DB backup to create a complete UCM backup restore points.
Let me know your thoughts on this.
Thanks
Srinath

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