Backing up or restoring your configuration data
To ensure that data is secure in case of a system failure, regularly back up your configuration store. If your configuration store becomes corrupted, you can restore the configuration store to the state it was in when the backup was created.
About this task
To back up and restore your IBM® Content Collector configuration data, use the afuConfigStoreTool utility that is provided with the product. In addition, you can use this utility to free unused space in the Content Collector configuration store.
To include the Content Collector configuration store in a regularly scheduled corporate backup, define a scheduled task that runs on a Content Collector node and that uses the afuConfigStoreTool program to create a backup of the Content Collector configuration data in a directory that is located on the Content Collector node. Schedule this task to run in advance of the corporate backup. Configure the corporate backup to include the directory that contains the backup of the Content Collector configuration data.
By setting up the backup in this way, you make sure that the corporate backup picks up a coherent set of data. If you try to have the corporate backup software back up the Content Collector configuration data directly instead of backing up the files that are produced by the Content Collector backup utility, your backup can be corrupt. This will happen if IBM Content Collector is updating configuration information when the corporate backup software runs.
You run the afuConfigStoreTool program from a Windows command prompt. The utility is located in InstallDir/ctms, where InstallDir is the installation directory of IBM Content Collector.
You can run the utility on any node in the Content Collector cluster.