Back up, archiving, and restoring applications

Use the applications catalog to back up, archive, and restore applications. Application status that is monitored and detected by policies will help you determine the maintenance action that you need to perform. The Backup and Archive actions are available if, when you edit the application properties, you set the property Application Backup for Archiving and Restore to Enable backup. The Restore action is available if you have backed up or archived applications.

Certain business components in composite applications cannot be backed up. Heed the warning that displays for business components that do not support backup, archive, and restore. If you back up applications containing business components that do not support full-cycle backup, archive, and restore, you will lose application information or entire business components.

Composite applications provide an extensible framework that supports diverse components. The implementation of a given component in a composite application determines whether it supports the Service Provider Interfaces (SPI) needed for component-level backup in the application. The composite application determines which business components can be backed up at runtime.

If you are an administrator or an application manager, you can perform the following actions from within the applications catalog:
Back up

Back up an application locks the application and makes a copy of it in the default backup directory or to another directory specified in the custom property backup.root of the resource environment provider WP AIInitService. While an application is being backed up, it is locked for Archive, Restore, and Delete actions.

Archive

Archiving an application locks the application, backs up the application, and deletes it from the server. While an application is being archived, it is locked for Backup, Restore, and Delete actions. After you archive applications, you can filter the applications catalog to show only Archived Applications. When you work with Archived Applications in the catalog, you can perform the following actions:

• Change the view of the catalog

• Find archived applications

• View the Name, Owner, Archive Date, and Template of each archived application

• Restore an archived application

• Delete an archived application.

The following actions are not available when the catalog displays only Archived Applications:

• Create new applications

• Add and remove archived applications from Favorites list

• View favorite archived applications

• View general application status based on policy

• Display detailed status based on policy

• Back up an archived application.

Restore

The Restore action is available if you have backed up or archived an application. Restoring an application allows you to choose a backup copy or an archive copy of the application to reinstate. While an application is being restored, the application is locked for Backup, Archive, and Delete. When you restore a backed-up application, you choose an older version of an existing application. When you restore an archived application, the most recent backup copy of the application is used to re-create the application that was backed up and deleted.
Restriction: Only administrators can restore an archived application. This prevents application managers from restoring an application that was archived because it exceeded the limits on application size, inactivity, and lack of modification set by the policy in force for the application.

Backup and Restore actions can also be used to move applications from one server to another (for example from development to staging) as follows:

1. Back up or archive the application.
2. Copy the backup files to the target server.
3. Import the backup information by running the com.ibm.portal.ai.task.AITask_IMPORT_RESTORE_POINTS task.
4. Transfer any referenced artifacts, such as portlets.
5. Restore the archived application on the target server.
   • Back up applications
   • Restore applications

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Manage applications
Automated tasks for composite applications

 

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