Hello,
How can we use backup feature from SOA for reinstalling and restoring a SOA server?
Thank you,
Claudiu
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Hi,
When you run “System backup” job in console, “backup.dat” file is created in avast! SOA’s ProgramData folder (C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\AVAST Software\Administration Console\Backup in Windows XP/2003, C:\ProgramData\AVAST Software\Administration Console\Backup in Vista/7/2008). This file contains database, license file and a few metadata.
Then, when you want to restore a database (and/or license file) you can use Avast.SystemRestore.exe cmd line utility, which is located at C:\Program Files\Avast Software\avast! Administration Console
Supported arguments are:
b, backup-file Required. Full path to the backup file to be used for restoration.
c, connection-string Connection string.
v, verbose Enable verbose output.
license-file-path Path to the license file.
force Skip security question (the whole process will proceed without user interaction).
timeout Timeout of the server STARTING/STOPPING operations (in seconds).
i, items Items to be restored (eg. -i ‘license, database’).
help Display this help screen.
The only mandatory argument is b. This is an absolute path to backup.dat file. Other options, like connection-string and license-file-path are by default retrieved from existing installation of avast! SOA.
Backup/Restore operations can be performed on local databases only. This means - embedded SQL engine introduced in ASOA or local “full” SQL Server instance. Also note that you cannot restore database to a different database engine. E.g. you cannot perform restore on a file that contains “full” SQL server database over an embedded SQL database (and vice versa).
Hope this helps,
Marek
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Thanks for info Marek. I think this is useful to know if we are first installing SOA in a test environment and after that we are migrating to production.
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