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Any one please help me on how to take backup of the Infosphere Information server 11.5.0.1 . and also how to take weekly back up of the projects.

No need to keep posting this in other forums, any help will show up here.

Are you looking to back up the DataStage portions? There are two approaches to do this:
1. Client based - use the Export tab in the Designer
2. Server/Engine based - use "istool" command to export selected components.

The DataStage Client Export command backups up jobs, sequencers, table definitions and parameter sets - basically all the components of DataStage jobs, to DSX files.

The istool command can be used to backup significantly more "things" - like the metadata assets that support other products, contract libraries used by Hierarchical stages, etc.

However, the problem with istool is that it doesn't support partial restores. Backup a project with istool and you have to restore the whole project. Back up a project with DSX and you can selectively restore any jobs you require. In order to restore a single job from an istool backup, you'll need to create a new project, restore it there, and then move the single asset you needed to the correct project.

DSX's can only be created from the client, which means all the jobs have to be pulled down to the client. The istool command can be run on the server.

...some things to think about.

Do you need to back up services and repository too?
Open the IBM Knowledge Centerand find (search for) the topic "Backing up and restoring IBM InfoSphere Information Server"

Thanks much !!

Tips on istool syntax and some examples. Note the syntax may have changed slightly on later revisions of DataStage.

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