Backing up a repository

Back up your repository regularly to ensure that you can recover from hardware failures or accidental deletion of files. Use this topic to back up your repository on demand by using the UNLOAD command of the Informix® DB-Access utility.

Only users with a user role of admin can back up a repository. The repository is unavailable while the backup is running.

To back up a repository:

  1. Access the manager on the application server.
  2. Click Configuration.
  3. Click Repository.
  4. Click Administration.
  5. Click Back Up Repository.
  6. Specify whether you want a full backup or an incremental backup of what changed since the last backup and click Back Up.
By default, backups are stored in /opt/IBM/InfoSphere/Optim/repo/server/ids11750/backups on the repository computer. After the backup is complete, copy the backup files from the backup folder to another computer. Copying backup files to another computer ensures that you will have backups available in the case of hardware failure. Mount an external drive to the repository computer or use FTP to copy backups from the repository to another computer.