How to start a clean publishing instance and sync everything including OSGi bundles?

Question

There are two publishing instances and one is recently down. An advice is to start a clean publishing instance and let the sync happen automatically.

The situation is, two publishing instances are not clustered now and there are quite a few bundles installed.

My question is, if I try to start a clean publishing instance as advised, do I need to do anything to make it exactly the same as the running one? like the followings:

1. republish the pages
2. manually install OSGi bundles
3. configure publishing agent (if url and port number remains the same)

Anything is appreciated.

Answer 1

You're not far off in my opinion.

Some minor additions:

• You don't need to install the site-specific osgi bundles manually, you can replicate them (after configuring the replication agent) from the author instance.
• Re-Publish the pages using tree-activiation.