Data backups and archives
To protect the data in your Rational DOORS database against the failure of the disk on which it is stored, take regular backups of the disk. For Rational DOORS data, you can do full or differential backups. If you do differential backups, make sure that you do a full backup at least once a week. Do not use incremental backups. Restoring data from incremental backups requires complex steps to restore previous backups. If there is a disk hardware error, you can restore the entire disk from your backups.
- Make sure that all users are logged out of Rational DOORS. Most backup tools do not back up files that are open. If files are skipped because users are accessing the database, your backup might capture inconsistent data.
- If you are using Rational DOORS Web Access, stop Rational DOORS Web Access, as described in Running Rational DOORS Web Access.
- Stop the Rational DOORS database server, as described in Stopping the database server.
- Start the Rational DOORS database server, as described in Managing the Rational DOORS database server.
- If you are using Rational DOORS Web Access, start Rational DOORS Web Access, as described in Running Rational DOORS Web Access.
If you are using Rational DOORS Web Access with Jazz™ Reporting Service or TRS consumer applications, such as IBM Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager, back up the Derby database that is used with the integration when you back up your Rational DOORS database. The default location for the Derby database is C:\Program Files\IBM\Rational\DOORS Web Access\9.version\server\festival\derby\. If you need to restore your Rational DOORS database, restore the Derby database at the same time to ensure data consistency.
You can create Rational DOORS archives of entire projects, individual modules, and the user and group list.