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[Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Knut

Attached is pdf of the man pages which get installed with dhis2-tools.
 There are a few additional tools, notably dhis2-backup and dhis2-restoredb
which I still have to create pages for.   But it does make setting up and
managing dhis2 pretty straightforward.  Basically to create an instance
called "dhis":

#  install some prerequisites (this is the only complicated bit - I do all
of this in a short script)
# latest way to install pstgres according to (
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Apt)
echo "deb http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/ $(lsb_release -sc)-pgdg
main" >/etc/apt/sources.list.d/pgdg.list
wget --quiet -O - http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/ACCC4CF8.asc |
sudo apt-key add -

# need to use a ppa for nginx
sudo apt-get -y install python-software-properties -y
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nginx/stable -y
sudo apt-get -y update

# install the dhis2-tools deb
dpkg -i dhis2-tools_1.0-0ubuntu1_all.deb
apt-get -y install -f

dhis2-create instance -p 8080 dhis
dhis2-deploy-war dhis

#look at the log:
dhis2-log dhis

# starting and stopping
dhis2-shutdown dhis
dhis2-startup dhis

# backup the database
dhis2-backup dhis ;# some tuning required
#restore
dhis2-restoredb dhis2 knuts_dump.sql
#or
dhis2-restoredb dhis2 knuts_dump.sql.gz
#or
dhis2-restoredb dhis2 knuts_dump.sql.bz2

# upgrade to latest release
dhis2-deploy-war dhis
# upgrade to a war on your file system
dhis2-deploy-war -f mydhis.war dhis
# get bleeding edge trunk
dhis2-deploy-war -t dhis

etc ....

Basically a couple of simple commands (with man pages) to do basic
mangaement.  Lots of difficult magic happening behind the scenes related to
automatically setting up nightly backups, security, tomcat tuned caching
etc.

I need to put the deb back on to dhis2.org downloads and fix some minor
bugs and complete docs .... I'll update my youtube video soon.  Of course
you can assemble the package yourself from the source (under tools in repo)
but not everyone will have the deb toolchain installed.

Bob

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