Backup Procedure

This task shows you how to:

See Also
Restore Data
High Availability Backup Procedure
High Availability Restore Procedure

Standard Backup Operation

  1. Stop Exalead CloudView on all hosts.
  2. On all hosts, copy the <DATADIR> from your product installation. If you applied patches, you can also copy the <INSTALLDIR>.

    To reduce disk copy time, do not copy the <DATADIR>/run folder (containing logs).

Hot Backup Operation

To perform hot backup operations, you can use either the API Console or the cvcommand tool.

Hot Back Up Data Using the API Console

Context: This is the procedure to follow if you use the Consolidation Server in your configuration.

  1. In the API Console, select Manage.
  2. If your Exalead CloudView configuration uses a crawler, stop it using:
    1. Select MAMI crawl.
    2. Under Operation, select the stopCrawl method.
    3. Click Send.
  3. Freeze the product services:
    1. Select MAMI master.
    2. Under Operation, select the freeze method.
    3. Click Send.

      Note: While in freeze mode, all push operations are suspended, no indexing jobs are created and trigger job conditions are ignored.

  4. Verify that Consolidation processes are disabled using:
    1. Under Operation, select the getStatus method.
    2. Specify the instanceName parameter (see previous step).
    3. Click Send.
    4. Specify the following to enabled="false": PushAPIStatus, TransformationStatus, AggregationStatus.
  5. Verify that processes are disabled:
    1. Select MAMI indexing.
    2. Under Operation, select the getBuildGroupStatus method.
    3. Specify the indexTimeout parameter to 0.
    4. Click Send.
    5. Specify the following to enabled="false": PushServerStatus, AnalysisStatus, ImportStatus.
  6. On all hosts, copy the <DATADIR> from your product installation. You can also copy the <INSTALLDIR> if you applied patches.

    To reduce disk copy time, do not copy the <DATADIR>/run folder (containing logs).

  7. Unfreeze the product services:
    1. Select MAMI master.
    2. Under Operation, select the unfreeze method.
    3. Click Send.
  8. You can now restart your crawler if your Exalead CloudView configuration uses one.
    1. Select MAMI crawl .
    2. Under Operation, select the startCrawl method.
    3. Click Send.

Hot Back Up Data Using the cvcommand Tool

  1. Go to the <DATADIR>\bin directory.
  2. If your Exalead CloudView configuration uses a crawler, stop it using: 

    cvcommand <HOSTNAME>:<BASEPORT+11> /mami/crawl stopCrawl crawlerName=mycrawler

  3. Freeze all services using the master freeze method: 

    cvcommand <HOSTNAME>:<BASEPORT+11> /mami/master freeze

    Note: The freeze mode suspends all push operations, and the creation of indexing jobs. It also ignores trigger job conditions.

  4. Verify that processes are disabled using: 

    cvcommand <HOSTNAME>:<BASEPORT+11> /mami/indexing getBuildGroupStatus buildGroup=<BUILDGROUP>

  5. Check that the following are set to enabled="false": PushServerStatus, AnalysisStatus, ImportStatus.
  6. On all hosts, copy the <DATADIR> from your product installation. You can also copy the <INSTALLDIR> if patches were applied.

    Note: To reduce disk copy time, do not copy the <DATADIR>\run folder (containing logs).

  7. Unfreeze the services using the master unfreeze method. For example: 

    cvcommand <HOSTNAME>:<BASEPORT+11> /mami/master unfreeze

  8. You can now restart your crawler if your Exalead CloudView configuration uses one. 

    cvcommand <HOSTNAME>:<BASEPORT+11> /mami/crawl startCrawl crawlerName=mycrawler