Back Up and Restore Overview
Informatica recommends that you periodically back up the service metatdata, repositories, and storage locations associated with Enterprise Data Preparation. Backing up Enterprise Data Preparation enables you to recover from data loss due to hardware or software failures. You should also back up Enterprise Data Preparation before you upgrade Enterprise Data Preparation.
Back up the following application services, repositories, and storage locations associated with Enterprise Data Preparation:
- •Back up the Model repository associated with the Enterprise Data Preparation Service.
- •Document the configuration details for the Hive scanners and HDFS scanners configured in the Enterprise Data Catalog used by the Enterprise Data Preparation Service.
- •Back up the MySQL database or Oracle database used as the Data Preparation repository.
- •Back up the Interactive Data Preparation Service durable storage location on HDFS.
You might also need to back up the following:
- •If rules are configured for the Interactive Data Preparation Service, back up the rules metadata.