UnifiedViews - Recommended Backup Strategy

Abstract

This section contains a short guide on how to backup the data of your UnifiedViews instance.

UnifiedViews Required Backup Directories

If you use the default path during installation, you find the data and repositories in this path: /opt/unifiedviews/unifiedviews/configdata/server/repositories

UnifiedViews Additional Backup Directories

Pipeline Debug Data

We strongly recommend to also back up the pipeline debug data, located by default here: /opt/unifiedviews/unifiedviews/backend/working

UnifiedViews Input and Output Data

UnifiedViews input and output data should also be backed up and per default during installation are created here: /opt/unifiedviews/unifiedviews/data

Note

Depending on the configuration you choose for your UnifiedViews instance, during pipeline development, users could specify any readable or writable directories on the server. Make sure to include all of those in your backup.
Due to the nature of such data, backups can be large, so consider disk capacity when planning backups.

Backup Strategy

Note

We strongly recommend to regularly back up UnifiedViews pipelines and DPU configuration data. Especially, since PoolParty UnfiedViews, differing in this respect from PoolParty Thesaurus Server, does not automatically create system snaphshots.

Best Practice

You should set up a backup pipeline for the Required directories mentioned above.
To make the backup complete, also include the Additional directories listed.

The backup solutions you use also depend on your infrastructure and individual requirements, as usual.

Note

We recommend setting up a dedicated backup pipeline that will be executed on a regular schedule.

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