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Back up your portal server database
Follow the appropriate procedure in this section to back up your portal server database if you have not already performed the backup described in the procedures in Back up IBM Tivoli Monitoring.
Use the following procedure to backup your portal server database:
- Stop Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server
- Export the Tivoli Monitoring data in the database using the migrate-export script, as described in the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Administrator's Guide (http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v61r1/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.itm.doc_6.3%2Fadminuse%2Ftepsreplicate_export.htm).
If you are upgrading from IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2.2 FP2-FP8, V6.2.3, or V6.2.3 FP1 to V6.3 or later and you have Tivoli Data Warehouse summarization and pruning configured, you should follow the instructions in the Local fix section of the APAR IV12595 before executing the migration-export script. For more information, go to http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IV12595.
Alternatively you can follow the database specific methods that are described in the sections that follow to back up the portal server database.
DB2 backup procedure
Use the following command to backup your portal server database where DB2 Database for Linux, UNIX, and Windows is the relational database management system of choice.
db2 backup database yourtepsdatabase to /yourbackuplocation
If an existing connection prevents you from backing up the database, use the following commands.
- db2 connect to yourtepsdatabase
- db2 quiesce database immediate force connections
- db2 connect reset
- db2 backup database yourtepsdatabase to /yourbackuplocation
- db2 connect to yourtepsdatabase
- db2 unquiesce database
- db2 connect reset
Derby backup procedure
Use the following procedure to back up your portal server database where the embedded database, Derby, is the relational database management system of choice.
- Stop the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server.
- To manually back up the entire Derby database, copy the database directory to a backup location. This database is stored in either of these locations:
- ITMHOME\CNPSJ\derby\TEPS0
- ITMHOME/platform/iw/derby/TEPS0
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Back up your portal server and Tivoli Data Warehouse databases