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• Backup and Restore

  Backup and Restore

  Content Type
  Course

  Duration
  1h

  Level
  Introductory

  Learn how to back up and restore your InterSystems IRIS® data platform system and design an effective backup strategy.

  Learning Objectives

  • Identify benefits and drawbacks of backing up within InterSystems IRIS using external backup software or a virtual machine snapshot.
  • Design an effective backup strategy for your site.
  • Back up and restore InterSystems IRIS using an external tool.

  
  

  Prerequisites

  • Experience with the Management Portal
  • Knowledge of the general architecture of InterSystems IRIS

  
  
  
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• What's Next?

  What's Next?

  You learned how to create a robust and effective backup strategy to ensure that you can recover from any unforeseen events, or from planned events such as a hardware-upgrade migration. You also learned the process for backing up a system using an external third-party backup tool, and recovering the backup. With a good backup strategy and diligence in implementing your backup and restore processes, you can be sure that the data in your system is safe and secure.

  Continue learning about backing up and restoring your system:

  • Get an introduction to the importance of data integrity in InterSystems IRIS (documentation, 20m).
  • Learn about what to consider when creating a backup strategy (documentation, 15m).
  • See the steps needed to restore journal files (documentation, 5m).
  • Read about VM backups and InterSystems IRIS freeze and thaw scripts (article, 30m).

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