Backing up and restoring InfoSphere MDM

To aid in disaster recovery or restoring your customizations and configuration after an upgrade, it's a good idea to keep a backup of your InfoSphere® MDM deployment, including the application server profiles, MDM database, and any customized extensions or additions.

About this task

Because each installation is different, this documentation does not attempt to provide detailed steps for performing backups. Use your preferred archiving and backup tools.

Backing up InfoSphere MDM is especially important before upgrading your deployment.

Procedure

To back up your deployment:
- Back up the InfoSphere MDM database component according the backup instructions provided by your database vendor.
- Back up the InfoSphere MDM application server component using the IBM® WebSphere® Application Server profile backup and restore capabilities:
  1. Stop the deployment manager, node agents, and servers or cluster.
  2. Back up the WebSphere Application Server profiles. For example:
```
<WAS_HOME>/bin/manageprofiles.sh -backupProfile -profileName Dmgr01 -backupFile ~/profiles/Dmgr01_MDMv1160.zip
<WAS_HOME>/bin/manageprofiles.sh -backupProfile -profileName AppSrv01 -backupFile ~/profiles/AppSrv01_MDMv1160.zip
```
  3. Restart the deployment manager, node agents, and servers or cluster.
- Back up all custom CBAs containing additions and extensions that have been deployed to your InfoSphere MDM instance.
- Back up all customizations done to MDM applications and components, including the native engine.
- Back up your WAS_PROFILE_HOME directory.
To restore your deployment from a backup:
- Restore the InfoSphere MDM database component according the instructions provided by your database vendor.
- Restore the InfoSphere MDM application server component using the WebSphere Application Server profile backup and restore capabilities:
  1. Stop the deployment manager, node agents, and servers or cluster.
  2. Restore the WebSphere Application Server profiles. For example:
```
<WAS_HOME>/bin/manageprofiles.sh -restoreProfile -backupFile 
~/profiles/Dmgr01_MDMv1160.zip

<WAS_HOME>/bin/manageprofiles.sh -restoreProfile -backupFile 
~/profiles/AppSrv01_MDMv1160.zip
```
  3. Restart the deployment manager, node agents, and servers or cluster.