Archive and Restore Folders

In the Projects and Portfolios category views a folder and its contents can be archived and restored to a different system.

Using the archive and restore facilities, a SAS Decision Manager administrator can back up a folder in one repository and restore it to another repository. The folder is archived as a compressed ZIP file.

Note: The attachments and comments at the portfolio level, project level, and model level are managed by separate services and are not stored within the portfolio, project, and model objects. Therefore, the attachments and comments are not included in the archived ZIP file.

Before you restore a folder, you should first create a folder to restore it to, since the restored projects reside at the same level that you specified. A best practice is to give the restored folder the same name as the archived ZIP file. The contents of the archived folder are restored to the new folder.

Note: All tables that are referenced within the projects and portfolios that are restored must be registered in the SAS Metadata Repository and made available to the Data

Tables category view. For more information, see Managing Data Tables.

Folders cannot be restored in these situations:

The name of the organizational folder to be restored is the same as a project name in the archived folder.
The same archived ZIP file has already been restored in a folder on the same WebDAV server.

To archive a folder:

Select a folder.
Select ActionsArchive.
Select a folder where the contents are to be saved.
Enter a name.
Click Save.

To restore a folder:

Tip

Create a folder first into which to place the restored project.

Select a folder.
Select ActionsRestore.
Navigate to the folder where the contents are saved.
Select the file.
Click OK.

Note: After restoring a folder, verify that the following requirements have been met:

All scheduled jobs for scoring tests, performance, and retraining for the projects within a folder must be deleted and re-created on the system where the folder was restored.
All user-defined templates for a model, report, and properties must exist on the system where the folders were restored. If they do not exist you must re-create the templates.

For more information, see the following topics:

Last updated: February 22, 2017