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IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3 Fix Pack 2
Back up your portal server and Tivoli Data Warehouse databases
The following sections contain procedures for backing up your portal server database and backing up a DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows Tivoli Data Warehouse database. If you use Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle for the Tivoli Data Warehouse database, use the corresponding commands.
These steps are required if you are updating a Tivoli Monitoring V6.1 environment to a later release. These steps are recommended (but not required) if you are updating a Tivoli Monitoring V6.2 or later environment to a later release.
- Back up your portal server database
- Back up the Tivoli Data Warehouse database
Follow the procedure in this section to back up the Tivoli Data Warehouse database.
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Plan your upgrade