Chistian, I thought that *some* of the index files could be created/re-created from scratch (i.e. they don’t contain any data necessary for creating an xml instance for a resource in the db). If that’s not the case, ok. If it is the case, can you identify which index files can be created/re-created from scratch? On 1/20/17, 12:16 PM, "Christian Grün" <christian.gruen@gmail.com> wrote: > Let me rephrase. For a given database, fooDb, which contains a single XML resource at fooDb/a/b/c/bar.xml, which files are required to restore the fooDb from an NFS backup? All files in your data/fooDb directory. > And for the sake of completeness, which files are not necessary for that restoration? All other files on your machine ;)