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diff --git a/doc/guide.html b/doc/guide.html index b7466955e..a75ff4bf9 100644 --- a/doc/guide.html +++ b/doc/guide.html @@ -2929,8 +2929,21 @@ The more interesting ones are: </DD><DT CLASS="dt-description"><B><TT>reopen-log</TT></B></DT><DD CLASS="dd-description"> Reopen the log files after they were renamed. If the old files were not renamed before calling this command, they are automatically renamed to <TT>"*-old.log"</TT>. See section <A HREF="#logfiles">7.1</A>. -</DD><DT CLASS="dt-description"><B><TT>backup, restore, install-fallback, dump, load</TT></B></DT><DD CLASS="dd-description"> You can use these -commands to create and restore backups. +</DD><DT CLASS="dt-description"><B><TT>backup ejabberd.backup</TT></B></DT><DD CLASS="dd-description"> +Store internal Mnesia database to a binary backup file. +</DD><DT CLASS="dt-description"><B><TT>restore ejabberd.backup</TT></B></DT><DD CLASS="dd-description"> +Restore immediately from a binary backup file the internal Mnesia database. +This will comsume quite some memory for big servers. +</DD><DT CLASS="dt-description"><B><TT>install-fallback ejabberd.backup</TT></B></DT><DD CLASS="dd-description"> +The binary backup file is installed as fallback: +it will be used to restore the database at the next ejabberd start. +Similar to <TT>restore</TT>, but requires less memory. +</DD><DT CLASS="dt-description"><B><TT>dump ejabberd.dump</TT></B></DT><DD CLASS="dd-description"> +Dump internal Mnesia database to a text file dump. +</DD><DT CLASS="dt-description"><B><TT>load ejabberd.dump</TT></B></DT><DD CLASS="dd-description"> +Restore immediately from a text file dump. +This is not recommended for big databases, as it will consume much time, +memory and processor. In that case it’s preferable to use <TT>backup</TT> and <TT>install-fallback</TT>. </DD><DT CLASS="dt-description"><B><TT>import-file, import-dir</TT></B></DT><DD CLASS="dd-description"> These options can be used to migrate from other Jabber/XMPP servers. There exist tutorials to <A HREF="http://www.ejabberd.im/migrate-to-ejabberd">migrate from other software to ejabberd</A>. |