Best Practices for Backing Up and Restoring Your System

Best Practices for Restoring Your System

Like full backups, full restores are the best practice to follow to ensure that the metadata server returns to a consistent state and that metadata associations are correctly maintained. Full restores include the following:

the repository manager, all of your metadata repositories, and the metadata server's configuration files (omaconfig.xml, adminUsers.txt, trustedUsers.txt, and logconfig.xml). If you use the Backup Wizard to create your backup job, then a restore job is automatically created that restores the repository manager and all of the repositories that are included in the backup. You can also use the RESTORE option of the %OMABAKUP macro to create your own restore job. As a default, this option restores the repository manager and all repositories with a registered access mode of Online or Administration.
the SAS Content Server, the SAS Table Server, and the physical files that are associated with the metadata. Restore jobs that are created using the Backup Wizard and %OMABAKUP do not restore these files. Therefore, you must use operating system commands or third-party tools to restore them. For details, see Back Up the SAS Content Server and Back Up Data That Is Stored in File Systems.

Restoring an Unresponsive Metadata Server

The RESTORE option of %OMABAKUP can restore repositories only on a running metadata server. If your metadata server is not responding to client requests, then you must use operating system commands to restore the metadata repositories and the repository manager. For instructions, see Manually Restoring an Unresponsive SAS Metadata Server.

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