Backup Operations

To perform backup operations, you can use either the CloudView API Console or the cvcommand tool. The procedure below uses the API Console.

  1. In the API Console, select Manage.
  2. If your product configuration uses a crawler, you must stop it:
    • Search and select the stopCrawl operation and then click Send.
  3. Freeze the product services:
    • Search and select the freeze operation and then click Send.

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

  4. To verify that the BuildGroupStatus processes are disabled, search and select the BuildGroupStatus operation check that the following are set to enabled=”false”.
    • PushServerStatus
    • AnalysisStatus
    • ImportStatus
  5. 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).

  6. Unfreeze the product services:
    • Search and select the unfreeze operation and then click Send.
  7. Restart your crawler if your Exalead CloudView configuration uses one.
    • Search and select the startCrawl operation and then click Send.