Back up the Deployment Engine (DE) before and after applying
any updates to an existing deployment.
About this task
Use a meaningful name for the backup file to show that it
contains the state of the registry at a given time. For example,
DEBackupAfterJune12Install.
Procedure
To back up the DE:
- Change to the acsi directory: On UNIX or Linux operating systems, the directory is in /var/ibm/common/acsi for
root users. For nonroot users the directory is relative to your home
directory, for example, userhomedirectory/.acsi_username.
On Windows operating systems, the directory is in C:\Program
Files\IBM\Common\acsi for administrator users.
- Set the environment, as follows:
./setenv.sh- setenv.cmd
- Change to the bin directory: On
UNIX or Linux operating systems, the directory is in /var/ibm/common/acsi/bin for
root users. For nonroot users the directory is relative to your home
directory, for example, userhomedirectory\.acsi_username\bin.
On Windows operating systems, the directory is in C:\Program
Files\IBM\Common\acsi\bin for administrator users.
- Run the following command to back up the DE:
- de_backupdb backupfilename
- de_backupdb.cmd backupfilename
Where backupfilename is the name of the file
to which the DE is backed up.
What to do next
After you backed up the DE database, you can install
Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus,
install additional components or products on the server, upgrade
Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus,
or apply fix packs.