Backup and Restore Process

[shocko]

I'm using Qlik Enterprise Manager with the Analytics feature on a VMware 7.6 U3 VM. I also have Netbackup 8.2 which supports backing up PostGres DBs. Is there a guide to backup/restore the EM application inclduing the analytics DB and config?

[Steve_Nguyen · Accepted solution]

1. currently there is no backup / restore for QEM.. the only way to backup QEM is backup the whole ~\data folder of QEM.

2. for the QEM analytic , the data is in Postgres database. So the DBA can backup this QEM database.

[shocko]

But how would this represent a consistent backup? We use the Analytics feature as were licensed for it. It's using a PostGRE DB I believe. Backing up the folder would not take a consistent backup of the DB if the DB is online no?

[Steve_Nguyen]

The database, can be backup by your DBA, QEM can use any Postgres DB. so your DBA just need to backup the database.

[AnneVo]

Can QEM backup of ~\data folder be copied to a standby (different) QEM stand-alone Windows server, eg. for Disaster Recovery ?    Do we need to stop QEM service to backup/restore ?

[shocko]

Does this account for things like custom MUK keys? It seem VERY vague!

[shocko]

If one backups up the data folder for example can I restore it to another replicate server?

[Steve_Nguyen · Accepted solution]

@AnneVo to move QEM, you can move the QEM data folder to another server and install QEM and point to the existing data folder.

[AnneVo]

We followed the steps in the manual section "Migrating the Enterprise Manager Repository" to perform our failover, including switching DNS alias to the QEM server.

[Steve_Nguyen]

@AnneVo great, did that work for you ?