Best Practices for Backing Up and Restoring Your System

Using Operating System Commands to Back Up the Metadata Server

Instead of using the Backup Wizard or %OMABAKUP, you can choose to use operating system commands to back up your metadata repositories and the repository manager. If you use this method, then you must be sure to pause the metadata server to an Offline state before performing the backup. If the metadata server is Online or is paused to an Administration state, then the backup files will not be usable.

Note: External systems such as Windows Services Manager report the Offline state as paused. [cautionend]

You can use PROC METAOPERATE to pause the server to an Offline state before the backup is taken and to resume the server to an Online state when the backup is complete. For details, see the following:

You can also pause and resume the server by using SAS Management Console or a server management script (see Operating Your Servers). Be sure to pause the server to an Offline state (rather than the Administration state).

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