Backing up and restoring the Deployment Engine

Use the Deployment Engine (DE) backup script before installing additional components or other products that are based on the Tivoli Integrated Portal platform. If you need to recover the original configuration after a failure, you can then run the Deployment Engine restore script.

1. From the command line, change to the acsi directory:
   • cd C:\Program Files\IBM\Common\acsi
   • For Linux and UNIX-based systems, the path to the acsi directory varies depending on whether you are installing as root or as a non-root user, as follows:
     • Installing as a non-root user, the path is relative to the user's home directory:
       <non-root user home directory>/.asci_<user_name>
     • Installing as root, the path is as follows:
       /var/ibm/common/asci
2. Initialize the Deployment Engine environment from the command line:
   • setenv.bat
   • . setenv.sh
3. Change to the bin directory:
   • Change to the bin child directory, that is:
     C:\Program Files\IBM\Common\acsi\bin
   • For Linux and UNIX-based systems, the path to the bin directory varies depending on whether you are installing as root or as a non-root user, as follows:
     • For a non-root user, change to the bin child directory, that is:
       <non-root user home directory>/.asci_<user_name>/bin
     • For root, the path is as follows:
       /usr/ibm/common/asci/bin
4. Run the backup script to back up the Deployment Engine database, as follows:
   • de_backupdb.cmd
   • de_backupdb
5. If you need to restore the Deployment Engine database, from the bin directory run the restore script:
   • de_restoredb.cmd
   • de_restoredb