Restoring your system

Start your restore with the foundation components in the IBM Content Cortex domain. For each high-level step in your restore process, work with the backup administrator and use the appropriate product documentation to determine the specific steps that are required.

About this task

See the following table for a list of Content Cortex components to restore.

Table 1. Content Cortex components and links to recovery instructions

Content Cortex components	Recovery instructions
Global configuration database	Recovering the data in your Content Cortex domain
Object stores (design, staging, and target), workflow system, and file stores storage area	Recovering the data in your Content Cortex domain
IBM Content Navigator	Refer to the backup information: Backing up IBM Content Navigator
Optional: Case Analyzer	Recovering the data in your Content Cortex domain
Content Platform Engine server	Refer to the backup information: Server configuration backup

You can restore Business Automation Workflow components by using your latest backups. Work with your backup administrator to understand the backup policy and the best way to perform the restore.

To restore the workflow components:

• Restore the workflow servers.
  1. Reinstall the Business Automation Workflow software as needed.
  2. Reconfigure the software or restore the workflow configuration files from a backup.
• Restore the Business Automation Workflow network share that hosts runtime plug-ins, add-ons configuration, documents, and customized widget pages (run time) from the latest backup.
• Restore the case management solutions (design time or run time) and customized widget pages (design time) by recovering the object store. See Recovering the data in your Content Cortex domain .
• Optional: Restore the case history store database from the database server.
• Optional: Restore the business rules repository. Restore and overwrite the network shared directory from the latest backup.