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Set Up OroPlatform-Based Application From Database Dump 

This guide demonstrates how to set up Oro applications from database dumps (postgres only).

There are 3 typical use cases for restoring your application from a database dump:

  1. Create a db dump before executing migration and reload in case anything goes wrong.

  2. Reload a db dump provided by your Project Lead in order to have a unified data across the team.

  3. Reload a db dump from production or staging environment to troubleshoot issues.

Prepare a Database Dump 

  1. Locally

    # make sure to adapt username and other params based on the values from your application's environment variables or .env-app.local file
# you can omit --host and --port if you are using localhost and 5432 respectively
pg_dump --no-owner --username=oro_db_user --host=localhost --port=5432 oro_db > /tmp/oro_db_dump.sql

  2. Docker

    # commerce-crm-ee_pgsql_1 - docker container of your DB
# oro_db_user - oro database user
# oro_db - oro database
docker exec commerce-crm-ee_pgsql_1 pg_dump --no-owner -U oro_db_user oro_db > /tmp/oro_db_dump.sql

  3. Default docker-compose.yml setup

    # oro_db_user - oro database user
# oro_db - oro database
docker exec $(docker compose ps -q pgsql) pg_dump --no-owner -U oro_db_user oro_db > /tmp/oro_db_dump.sql

  1. OroCloud

    Follow the Sanitized Backup documentation for more details.

    # make sure VPN to your OroCloud instance in on
# ssh to your instance
ssh USERNAME@ocom-PROJECTNAME-prod1-maint1

# execute sanitized backup command
orocloud-cli backup:create:sanitized -v

# output should be similar to below
# Done, sanitized backup saved to: '/mnt/ocom/backup/20220081102000-sanitized-db.sql.gz'
# download it then to your local instance
scp USERNAME@ocom-PROJECTNAME-prod1-maint1:/mnt/ocom/backup/20220081102000-sanitized-db.sql.gz /tmp/oro_db_dump.sql.gz

# unzip it
gzip -dk /tmp/oro_db_dump.sql.gz

Restore a Database Dump 

  1. Locally and from OroCloud

    Hint

    Postgres superuser (sudo -u postgres) is used here to make sure there are no permission issues. If you don’t have access to sudo or prefer running the commands as a different user, use psql -U username.

    # drop an old db first
sudo -u postgres psql -c "DROP DATABASE oro_db;"

# an recreate a fresh db
sudo -u postgres psql -c "CREATE DATABASE oro_db;"
sudo -u postgres psql -d oro_db -c 'CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS "uuid-ossp";'
sudo -u postgres psql oro_db < /tmp/oro_db_dump.sql

    Hint

    if you are using database user with insufficient permissions, you might need to grant access to the newly created db.

    sudo -u postgres psql -c "GRANT CONNECT ON DATABASE oro_db TO oro_db_user2;"
sudo -u postgres psql oro_db -c "GRANT USAGE ON SCHEMA public TO oro_db_user2;"
sudo -u postgres psql oro_db -c "GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON ALL TABLES IN SCHEMA public TO oro_db_user2;"
sudo -u postgres psql oro_db -c "GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON ALL SEQUENCES IN SCHEMA public TO oro_db_user2;"
sudo -u postgres psql oro_db -c "SELECT 'ALTER TABLE '|| schemaname || '.' || tablename ||' OWNER TO oro_db_user2;' FROM pg_tables WHERE NOT schemaname IN ('pg_catalog', 'information_schema') ORDER BY schemaname, tablename;"
sudo -u postgres psql oro_db -c "SELECT 'ALTER SEQUENCE '|| sequence_schema || '.' || sequence_name ||' OWNER TO oro_db_user2;' FROM information_schema.sequences WHERE NOT sequence_schema IN ('pg_catalog', 'information_schema') ORDER BY sequence_schema, sequence_name;"
sudo -u postgres psql oro_db -c "SELECT 'ALTER VIEW '|| table_schema || '.' || table_name ||' OWNER TO oro_db_user2;' FROM information_schema.views WHERE NOT table_schema IN ('pg_catalog', 'information_schema') ORDER BY table_schema, table_name;"

  2. Docker

    # commerce-crm-ee_pgsql_1 - docker container of your DB
# oro_db_user - oro database user
# oro_db - oro database
# Recreate containers in order to kill all the active db sessions
docker stop commerce-crm-ee_pgsql_1
docker start commerce-crm-ee_pgsql_1

# drop an old db first
docker exec commerce-crm-ee_pgsql_1 psql -U oro_db_user -d postgres -c "DROP DATABASE oro_db;"

# and recreate a fresh db
docker exec commerce-crm-ee_pgsql_1 psql -U oro_db_user -d postgres -c "CREATE DATABASE oro_db;"
docker exec commerce-crm-ee_pgsql_1 psql -U oro_db_user -d oro_db -c "CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS \"uuid-ossp\";"
cat /tmp/oro_db_dump.sql | docker exec -i commerce-crm-ee_pgsql_1 psql -U oro_db_user oro_db

  3. Default docker-compose.yml setup

    # oro_db_user - oro database user
# oro_db - oro database
# Recreate containers in order to kill all the active db sessions
docker compose stop pgsql # or docker compose down
docker compose up -d

# drop an old db first
docker exec $(docker compose ps -q pgsql) psql -U oro_db_user -d postgres -c "DROP DATABASE oro_db;"

# and recreate a fresh db
docker exec $(docker compose ps -q pgsql) psql -U oro_db_user -d postgres -c "CREATE DATABASE oro_db;"
docker exec $(docker compose ps -q pgsql) psql -U oro_db_user -d oro_db -c "CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS \"uuid-ossp\";"
cat /tmp/oro_db_dump.sql | docker exec -i $(docker compose ps -q pgsql) psql -U oro_db_user oro_db

Prepare Application 

Hint

If you use Symfony CLI, run symfony console instead of bin/console

  1. Run composer install (optionally)

    composer install

  2. Perform application upgrade

    Hint

    This action is needed only if the code is not in sync with the database, e.g., you restore the database from the older version. Otherwise, skip this step.

    bin/console oro:platform:update -vv --timeout=0 --symlink --skip-search-reindexation --force

  3. Update base url and optionally admin password

    bin/console oro:config:update oro_website.url https://oro.localhost
bin/console oro:config:update oro_website.secure_url https://oro.localhost
bin/console oro:config:update oro_ui.application_url https://oro.localhost
bin/console oro:user:update admin --user-password=admin

Follow the InstallerBundle documentation for more references on the oro:platform:update CLI command.