Cognos backed-up content

The Cognos® backup process creates a ZIP file (.zip) in the <backup-directory-name> directory. This ZIP file contains the necessary report and environment files that can be used by the Cognos restore utility (OPCCRestore).

Note:

If a backup file is very large (4 GB or larger), configure the OPCCBackup utility to use gzip (GNU zip). Gzip produces an archive with an extension of .tar.gz.
The OPCCBackup utility adds a timestamp to the .zip and log files it creates.

The ZIP file can be used as a parameter to the OPCCRestore command to restore the installation-specific IBM OpenPages® files and the database. Each time the OPCCBackup command is run, a separate ZIP file is created and each data file is identified by a unique name.