About Backup Databases

When you configure a JDBC connection to a database, you can also configure a backup database.

A backup database can be used in two ways:

• As a true backup when the connection to the primary database is unavailable.

• As the reporting database for the primary. To improve performance you can configure your report data models to run against the backup database only.

To use the backup database in either of these ways, you must also configure the report data model to use it.