Backing Up a CPDB

Every time a farm changes the CPDB changes. Therefore, you should perform frequent, regular backups of the CPDB.

Restoring the CPDB restores the associated farms to the state of the last backup. Farm changes made subsequent to the most recent backup are lost.

Run the backupdb command from the CPDB to back up the CPDB. For details on how to use this command, see the backupdb man page.

Backing up the CPDB does not back up the Control Center. See Backing Up the Control Center Database and the CPDB for details on backing up both, the CPDB and the Control Center, at the same time.