Backing up and Restoring Data

This section describes how to back up and restore CloudView data.

This task shows you how to:

Backup
Restore

Backup

You can back up your CloudView data by copying the <INSTALLDIR>\<OS>\cv\data from your product installation. If you applied patches to your product installation, you can also back up the <INSTALLDIR>, to avoid reinstalling them.

Go to the <INSTALLDIR>\<OS>\cv\data directory.
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.

Verify that processes are disabled using:

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

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

Note: To reduce disk copy time, do not copy the <INSTALLDIR>\<OS>\cv\data\run folder (containing logs).
Unfreeze the services using the master unfreeze method. For example:
```
cvcommand <HOSTNAME>:<BASEPORT+11> /mami/master unfreeze
```

Restore

When required, you can stop the product and then restore the data.

Note: For the restore, use a data directory generated on the same platform architecture.

Stop Exalead CloudView on all hosts (main and secondary servers).
Restore data on all hosts:
- Delete the content of the existing <INSTALLDIR>\<OS>\cv\data.
- Copy/paste the backup data within the <INSTALLDIR>\<OS>\cv\data.
If you backed up the <INSTALLDIR>, restore it on all hosts.
Start Exalead CloudView on all hosts (main and secondary servers).

Check processes status using:

<INSTALLDIR>\<OS>\cv\data\bin\cvinit.[bat|sh] status