Backup practices

Because back up and restore works with external contents, you must use a convention on how and where the content is stored on the file system and used with the database.

As part of that convention, the expectation is that files that are required for an AE implementation are stored under NZ_EXPORT_DIR/ae/applications/<db>.

Because <db> is replaced by the database name, partial backups and restores of databases can be carried out. Without this convention, there is no way of knowing if performing a partial restore of files for AEs in one database damages AEs in other databases because the files could be co-mingled.

Deploying the same AE in multiple databases means that there are multiple copies of the files stored under different database directories. You are recommended to use this convention when you are running compile_ae and register_ae.