Update documentation for Disaster Recovery

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      Problem Definition

      In Alternative Disaster Recovery Guide for Jira, we have provided the following steps for failover:

      Step 1. Fail over to the standby instance

      The basic steps to failover to the standby instance are:

      1. Ensure your live system is shutdown and no longer updating the database.
      2. Ensure that the directory <yourjirahome>/old does not exist on the standby instance.
      3. Perform whatever steps are required to activate your standby database.
      4. Start Jira in the standby instance.
      5. Wait for Jira to start and check it is operating as expected.
      6. Update your DNS, HTTP Proxy or other front end devices to route traffic to your standby server.

      The steps above is missing the instruction to either restore the indexsnapshot manually or to use the "disaster.recovery=true." parameter while starting Jira (which will trigger automatic index restoration).

      Suggested Solution

      Update the documentation and include the following step as step #2 in Step 1. Fail over to the standby instance:

      Start Jira in Disaster Recovery mode, by starting it with the following parameter: disaster.recovery=true.

      This should trigger automatic index recovery mechanism to kick in when the node is started during failover.

            Assignee:
            Tomasz Bartyzel
            Reporter:
            Vicknesh Shanmugam (Inactive)
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