Catalog Backup Utility
The catalog backup utility allows you to back up the catalog. You need not stop the Catalog Service or stop using Enterprise Data Catalog when you use the utility to take a backup.
You can back up the catalog to a directory of your choice and also tune the parameters to specify the system resources that you want to allocate for the backup. You can access the utility from the Catalog Backup Settings page.
When you perform a backup, you can view the catalog data and the catalog configuration details using the Enterprise Data Catalog applications. However, you cannot perform any configuration changes, updates, or add new resource or assets in Enterprise Data Catalog. The restricted tasks during backup include running resources, creating new resources, adding enrichments to resources, creating new connection assignments, and performing bulk imports.
Perform the following steps to back up the catalog using the utility:
- 1. Click Back Up Catalog from the left panel. The Catalog Backup Settings page appears.
- 2. Configure the following optional properties as required:
- a. In the Backup Path text box, enter the path to the directory where you want the catalog backup to be saved. By default, the backup is saved in directory where the Informatica logs are stored.
Note: The content in the default backup directory is retained only for 24 hours. Make sure that you specify a separate directory to store the backup or download the backup from the default directory within 24 hours.
- b. In the Maximum Cores text box, specify the number of CPU cores that you want to allocate for the backup utility run.
- c. In the Maximum Parallelism text box, specify the number of maximum parallel threads that you want to use when you run the backup utility.
- d. In the Retries text box, specify the number of retries that you want the utility to attempt if the catalog backup fails.
- 3. Click Download to start the backup utility. The Monitoring Job Details page appears from where you can download the backup.