TIBCO Spotfire Server 3.2.2 - TIBCO Product Documentation

Backup and Restore
10 Backup and Restore
10.1 Overview
To ensure quick and easy recovery after a crash or disaster in your Spotfire system, it
is important that you back up information stored in the system. This information
includes user files, configuration, etc. Most of this is stored in the Spotfire Database,
but some of it is stored on the Spotfire Server(s) and The Spotfire Web Player server.
This manual will not describe how to perform backups, only what to back up. It is
assumed that you have some sort of backup software for files and computers, and that
you use the backup tools provided by your database vendor. Refer to their
documentation for instructions on how to perform backups.
10.2 Spotfire Database
The most important part of the Spotfire system to back up is the Spotfire Database.
This is where most of the user data and configuration is stored, and even if you do not
have valid backups of other components of the Spotfire system, you will be able to
restore functionality after a crash if the database is backed up. It is therefore vital that
you have a valid and current backup of the Spotfire Database.
10.3 Spotfire Server(s)
Stored on the Spotfire Server(s) is configuration that is unique to each Spotfire Server
in the cluster, such as authentication information regarding NTLM, Kerberos, Client
Certificates, etc. Even if you lose this data, you will be able to get a Spotfire system
back after a crash, by installing a new server and adding it to the cluster. For simple
systems, where no or very little configuration is performed, this may even be enough.
If you have made any configuration changes, however, such as listening ports,
authentication, user directory, etc, you probably want to ensure that you have a valid
backup of your Spotfire Server(s). Configuration stored on the Spotfire Server(s)
includes the following:
• Listening ports configuration (see the section “Run Installer” on page 23 and
“Server.xml” on page 135 for more information about this)
• Information about how to connect to the Spotfire Database (see the section
“Database Connection Configuration” on page 138 for more information about
this)
• Logging configuration (see the section “Changing the Default Log Level of the
Spotfire Server” on page 132 for more information about this)
• Memory configuration (see the section “Modifying the Virtual Memory” on
page 103 for more information about this)
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