Backing Up the TIBCO iProcess Engine File System

Status

If you are...

This task is...

Installing a new iProcess Engine Version 11.9.0

N/A

Upgrading from an iProcess Engine Version 11.0 or later

Required

Database

Oracle, SQL Server

Description

Warning 

You must back up your iProcess Engine system before an upgrade.

Make sure that you back up the entire SWDIR directory structure, and any other files you want to restore if a failure occurs during upgrade. The upgrade process has no UNDO capability. If it fails for any reason, you will require a full backup of your SWDIR file system to be able to restore your original iProcess Engine system.

You must also back up your database schema — For detailed information, see Backing Up the TIBCO iProcess Engine Database Schema.

Procedure

Complete the following steps to back up an existing iProcess Engine:

1. Get all users to log out of the iProcess Engine.
2. Stop the iProcess nodeName Process Sentinels service and iProcess NodeName AdminConsole service from the Control Panel window to stop the iProcess Engine.
3. Make a secure offline copy of the entire SWDIR directory structure and any other files you want to restore if a failure occurs during upgrade using your operating system backup utility.

Note 

If you have made any changes to the following files since they were installed, you need to manually re-implement those changes after upgrading the iProcess Engine:

• SWDIR\config\ipac.properties
• SWDIR\config\log4j.properties
• SWDIR\etc\iapjms_classpath.properties
• SWDIR\etc\iapjms_log4j.properties
• SWDIR\etc\swjmx_log4j.properties
• SWDIR\etc\language.lng\staffico
• SWDIR\etc\language.lng\auditusr.mes

This is because the files are overwritten during the upgrade and any changes to the original files are not automatically merged into the new files. See Re-implementing Changes to Upgraded Configuration Files for more information.

See Also

For more information about the procedures, see TIBCO iProcess Engine Administrator's Guide and your operating system documentation.