5. Restoring the WAPT Server

In case of a complete crash, restart a standard WAPT Server installation on your WAPT Server. Then follow this procedure to restore your data.

By default, we recommend retaining the same IP address and Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) on the new WAPT server.

To ensure that the new WAPT server has sufficient disk space for the repository, monitor the volume of your old WAPT server after performing the cleanup process. This will help you determine the appropriate disk space requirements for the new server.

To display the size of the "C:\wapt" repository, follow these steps:

1- Open File Explorer and navigate to "This PC" or "My Computer."
2- Locate and right-click on the "C:\wapt" folder.
3- From the context menu, select "Properties."
4- In the Properties window, you will see various tabs. Ensure you are on the "General" tab.
5- Look for the "Size" and "Size on disk" lines, which will display the total size of the folder and its contents.

5.1. Linux

  • Stop WAPT related services on the WAPT Server.

systemctl stop nginx
systemctl stop waptserver
systemctl stop waptserver-uwsgi
systemctl stop wapttasks

  • Restore the following directories.

/var/www/wapt/
/var/www/wapt-host/
/var/www/waptwua/
/var/www/wads/
/opt/wapt/conf/
/opt/wapt/waptserver/ssl/
/var/www/*.json

  • Restore the database (adapt the name of your file). The first command deletes the WAPT database (if it exists). Make sure that your dump file is correct before deleting!

Warning

Check the encoding before creating the wapt database, if the dumped file is in en_US, your new base has to be en_US.

cd /tmp
sudo -u postgres psql -c "drop database wapt"
sudo -u postgres psql -c "create database wapt with owner=wapt encoding='utf-8'"
sudo -u postgres psql < /tmp/backup_wapt.sql

  • Apply ownership rights to the restored folders.

chown -R wapt:www-data /var/www/wapt/
chown -R wapt:www-data /var/www/wapt-host/
chown -R wapt:www-data /var/www/waptwua/
chown -R wapt:www-data /var/www/wads/
chown -R wapt /opt/wapt/conf/
chown -R wapt /opt/wapt/waptserver/ssl/

Important

If you change waptserver Debian for Redhat or vice versa. Don’t forget to check somethings :

Adapt news paths for parameter on your new server in the waptserver.ini

vi /opt/wapt/conf/waptserver.ini

wapt_folder = /var/www/wapt
waptwua_folder= /var/www/waptwua

Adapt path for the nginx configuration

vi /etc/nginx/sites-available/wapt.conf

Root paths must point to "/var/www/"

Recreating symbolic links.

ln -s /var/www/wapt/waptagent/waptsetup.exe waptsetup.exe
ln -s /var/www/wapt/waptagent/waptsetup.exe waptsetup-tis.exe
ln -s /var/www/wapt/waptagent/waptdeploy.exe waptdeploy.exe

  • Run a Scanpackages on your repositories.

wapt-scanpackages /var/www/wapt/

  • Restart WAPT related services on the WAPT Server.

systemctl start wapttasks
systemctl start waptserver
systemctl start nginx

  • Launch the postconf.sh

/opt/wapt/waptserver/scripts/postconf.sh

5.2. Windows

  • Stop WAPT related services on the WAPT Server.

net stop WAPTServer
net stop WAPTService
net stop WAPTTftpServer

  • Restore the following directories.

C:\wapt\waptserver\repository\wapt
C:\wapt\waptserver\repository\wapt-host
C:\wapt\waptserver\repository\waptwua
C:\wapt\waptserver\repository\wads
C:\wapt\conf
C:\wapt\waptserver\nginx\ssl

  • Apply full rights to the folder C:\wapt\waptserver\repository for the “Network Service” group.

  • Restore the database (adapt the name of your file). The first command deletes the WAPT database (if it exists). Make sure that your dump file is correct before deleting!

Warning

Check the encoding before creating the wapt database, if the dumped file is in en_US, your new base has to be en_US.

"C:\wapt\waptserver\pgsql-14\bin\psql.exe" -U postgres -c "drop database wapt;"
"C:\wapt\waptserver\pgsql-14\bin\psql.exe" -U postgres -c "create database wapt with owner=wapt encoding='utf-8';"
"C:\wapt\waptserver\pgsql-14\bin\psql.exe" -f c:\backup_wapt.sql -U postgres

  • Scan package repositories.

wapt-scanpackages "C:\wapt\waptserver\repository\wapt"

  • Restart WAPT related services on the WAPT Server.

net start WAPTServer
net start WAPTService
net start WAPTTftpServer