BI 4.1 SP3 TO SP7 backup needed for clustered and distributed environment

[Former Member]

Hello,

Beside CMS/Audit db and I/O FRS backups, what are the files and locations needed to backup (web.xml, server.xml, etc) in a clustered and distributed environment, we have 2 CMS servers, 3 processing servers and 3 webservers? Anything with the load balancer or something that we need to backup?

Thanks!

[denis_konovalov · Accepted solution]

well, it would be nice to have an OS level binary backup of the BOE install directories.
as for web tier/webapp conf etc - that's depends on where you have installed those, what webapp server you have and how you customized your apps.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks Denis.

For the OS level binary backup you suggest to do it on ALL server boxes (web and processing tiers)?

For web tier, we have 3 servers running Tomcat only in there

[denis_konovalov · Accepted solution]

except web tier - all OS level

if you use tomcat and installed it as part of BOE web tier install, then you need to backup tomcat conf files and BOE webapp conf files + any custom stuff, if you had it.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

And what about with the load balancer and F5, something that we should consider on backing up?

[former_member185603 · Accepted solution]

That is not part of BI, it is with network team. if you are managing both BI and F5 setup, then whatever require you need to backup.

[Former Member]

Thanks everyone for the input, I installed it on our Test server first, and the cluster information keep the same, what I noticed is that we need to backup Apache\conf if you have it installed in split mode like we do, otherwise will be overwritten and need to run re-deploy it again to make it work.

Hope this help.