Back up and restore

You can back up various features of your IBM® MQ Appliance and restore these features to the same or a different appliance, if required.

After you back up an appliance, you must restore it to the same or another appliance that is running the same firmware level.

To back up your IBM MQ Appliance, you back up the following features:
  1. Configuration of the IBM MQ Appliance.
  2. Messaging users and groups.
  3. Key repository.
  4. Queue manager configurations and data.
  5. IBM MQ Appliance web UI configurations.
You use URIs to copy the backed-up information from the appliance to safe storage. You also use URIs to restore backed-up information to a target appliance. You restore an appliance in the following order.
  1. Restore configuration of the IBM MQ Appliance.
  2. Restore messaging users and groups.
  3. Restore key repository.
  4. Restore queue manager configurations and data.
  5. Restore IBM MQ Appliance web UI configurations.