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Using the Backup Wizard in SAS Management Console

Troubleshooting the Backup Wizard

In addition, the following error messages might be displayed when you run the Backup Wizard:

Since all of your repositories are READONLY, no repositories will be backed up. To create a backup job, click Cancel and change the foundation repository to ONLINE. If you also want to back up READONLY custom and project repositories, select the Back Up READONLY Custom and Project Repositories option.

This message appears if all of your repositories have a registered access mode of ReadOnly and if you did not select the option to Back Up READONLY Custom and Project Repositories. Do the following if this message appears:

  1. Click Cancel to exit the wizard.

  2. Change the foundation repository's registered access mode to Online (see Change the Properties of a Metadata Repository).

  3. Start the wizard again.

  4. If you have ReadOnly custom or project repositories that you want to back up, select the Back Up READONLY Custom and Project Repositories option on the first wizard page.

Repository Foundation cannot be updated because the current or registered access is READONLY.
Due to the previous error, the job definition is incomplete for job job-name.

These messages appear in succession if you are creating a new backup job and the foundation repository has a registered access mode of ReadOnly. Change the foundation repository's registered access mode to Online, and run the wizard again.

If a backup job fails due to a lack of disk space, and if the backup destination is local to the metadata server machine, follow these steps:

  1. Check to see whether the metadata server is paused.

  2. If the metadata server is paused, you must free up disk space (or configure additional disk space) before you can resume the server. To determine the amount of disk space that is needed to resume the server and run the backup, add the size of the metadata journal file to the total size of your repositories.

  3. When the necessary amount of disk space has been made available, resume the server by using SAS Management Console, a script, or the Windows service manager (see Operating Your Servers).

  4. Rerun the backup.

For a detailed log, open name-of-backup-job.log in the backup destination directory.

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