Thursday, June 2, 2016

Restore old versions of Dspace to Dspace 6

Take a backup of Dspace database and folders

Assume that the old version of Dspace is running. Take a PostgreSQL database backup. Open a Terminal and apply following commands,

sudo su - postgres
pg_dump dspace > dspace.backup


The above command take a backup of Dspace database and store in /var/lib/postgresql/ .Copy the database.backup file to a safe place.