Best Practices for Backing Up and Restoring Your System

About Using the Export SAS Package Wizard to Back Up Specific SAS Folders

In certain situations it might be appropriate to make backups of specific SAS folders that are used to organize user-created SAS content. To perform selective backups and restores of objects in these folders (as well as physical files associated with these objects), you can use the following tools:

the Export SAS Package and Import SAS Package wizards, which are available in the Folders tab of SAS Management Console. The same wizards are also available in SAS Data Integration Studio and SAS OLAP Cube Studio.
the batch export tool and the batch import tool, which enable you to perform exports and imports on a scheduled or repeatable basis. These tools provide most of the same capabilities as the Export SAS Package and Import SAS Package wizards.

The following are examples of situations in which you might want to back up individual folders:

If you are creating new content (for example, new information maps and new reports) in a development environment, you might want to periodically back up the folders and associated physical files that contain this content.
If you are about to import new content (for example, new information maps, stored processes, and reports) into production folders, you might want to first back up the current contents of the production folders and their associated physical files.

For details about using the Export SAS Package and Import SAS Package wizards and the batch import and export tools, see Using the Promotion Tools.

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