If the default shell for the userid of the SAS installer is either the C-shell (csh) or the t-shell (tcsh), then submitting the Metadata Server backup program found at Lev1/SASMeta/MetadataServer/backupServer.sas will result in errors, and not all the files will be backed up correctly. In the backupServer.log file, you will see errors similar to the following:

ERROR: Command returned error code SYSRC=1
WARNING: Prior copy errors or warnings prevented BACKUP of Metadata Journal File.
ERROR: Could not BACKUP Metadata Journal
File "/sasfg/Lev1/SASMeta/MetadataServer/Journal/MetadataJournal.dat"

If, from the UNIX system prompt, you submit the cp command found in the backupServer.log file, you will see the following error:

unix>cp /sascfg/Lev1/SASMeta/MetadataServer/Journal/MetadataJournal.dat \ > /sascfg/Lev1/SASMeta/MetadataServer/SASBackup/ 2>&1|tee omaconfigFile._err
Ambiguous output redirect.
unix>

The problem arises because the csh and tcsh shells use a different syntax for redirecting standard error and standard output than other UNIX shells. As a workaround, change the default shell for the SAS installer userid to Bourne, Korn, or Bash.