BACKING UP A DATASTAGE VERSION CONTROL REPOSITORY

kayarsenal · Post by **kayarsenal** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 2:11 am

Hi All,
Can someone please tell me where to get a good documentation on this?

Regards
Kay

kumar_s · Post by **kumar_s** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 2:55 am

Do you mean the backup of version control project, if then it should be nothing more than normal export.
Still you have the document given in the client pdf.

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 6:39 am

Actually, there *is* more to it than just that, as it is not a 'normal' project. If all you do is an export, you won't have a working VC project when you reimport. You need to make sure you also backup the special hashed files inside the project that make it a Version Control project - and they all start with APM:

APM.BATCH
APM.BATCH.MEMBERS
APM.VERSION
APM.VERSION.XREF
APM.BP

This can simply be done at the O/S level with your favorite filesystem backup utility. Or you could write jobs to export their contents periodically and then matching jobs to reload them after recovery of the project.