Advanced Backup and Restore Tasks

These sections describe some advanced Essbase instance backup and restore tasks.

Server Configuration Files

If you have made any customizations to essbase.cfg or odbc.ini files, you should back them up each time you back up the instance.

Network Security Certificates

Certificate updates that you applied on your source instance must also be applied on your recovered target instance for all of the same Essbase functionality to work.

Partitions Across Hosts

If your instance contains partitioned Essbase applications and your recovered target instance is on a different host (ie target has different IP or a different fully qualified hostname), you will need to delete and re-create your partitions after recovery onto the target machine. Alternatively, you can add the qualified hostname from your source instance to the /etc/hosts file on your target instance.

Deleting partitions can be done on the file system by deleting .ddb files from both partition source and partition target database folders