Qlik Fix: How to Backup the Qlik Sense Repository Database

Troy_Raney — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 19:13:59 GMT

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This video demonstrates how to backup the Qlik Sense Repository Database.

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Video Transcript:

Hi and welcome to Qlik Fix!

This video will demonstrate how to backup the Qlik Sense Repository database.

These instructions are found on Help.Qlik.com in the “backing up a Qlik Sense Site “ documentation.

First, you need to stop all of the Qlik Sense Services

EXCEPT the Qlik Sense Repository Database on every node in your deployment.

Next, open a command prompt with administrator privileges on the machine hosting the database

This should be done from the PostgreSQL 9.6 bin folder

Copy, this command from the documentation and paste it in the command line.

PG_DUMP is a built-in command for Postgres utilities that comes with the Qlik Sense installation

The host, LocalHost means this machine has the repository.

The port

The database user defined when installing

The destination path of the backup.

I’m saving this to a new shared folder I’ve made on this machine.

And the target database, QSR – this is required.

I recommend adding a “-V” to add some verbosity so that you can actually see the backup taking place.

Enter

And enter the postgres user password

And done.

Now, just verifying that the back-up has been made.

There it is.

I hope this helped.

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