Backing up a SkyVault repository involves backing up the directory pointed to by the dir.root setting, the database that SkyVault is configured to use, and the Solr/Lucene indexes.
For backing up the Solr indexes using the Share Admin Console or the SkyVault-global.properties file, or JConsole, see Backing up Solr.
For backing up the Lucene indexes, see Lucene index backup and restore.
The contentstore and database must be backed up as a single unit. When you restore an SkyVault backup, you must restore both the dir.root directory (only the contentstore and contentstore.deleted directories) and the SkyVault database from the same backup set. Otherwise, the repository may be corrupted.
The dir.root directory is defined in the SkyVault-global.properties file. By default, this directory is named alf_data and is located within the directory where SkyVault is installed.