Backup and restore considerations with an external Content Platform Engine environment

When IBM® Business Automation Workflow is configured with an external Content Platform Engine environment, these two environments share a resource, the object store. This shared resource affects backup and restore procedures. Depending on how the two environments are configured and how applications are designed to work with them, a backup of one environment may require a backup of the other. In some cases, a time-synchronized backup is advisable.

Although each product has backup and restore information, the information is only for a backup and restore within the context of each product. In other words, the backup and restore information does not include other environments and components that interact with the product. When Business Automation Workflow has an external Content Platform Engine (or ECM) configuration, you must include the other environment in your process.

The object store database is integrated with both Business Automation Workflow and Content Platform Engine. Therefore, backing up or restoring the object store database must consider the data needs of both environments. The database location was determined when the external object store was created and this database must be included in a backup of the Business Automation Workflow environment. See setBPMExternalECM command.
If an offline backup is required for a Business Automation Workflow environment that is connected to a Content Platform Engine environment, the servers in both environments must be shut down. To minimize impact on both environments, there is a recommended sequence to shut down both environments. See Maintaining an external Content Platform Engine configuration.