UIM backup and restore

[Kasun Meedeniya]

Hi,

Customer need to backup data from existing UIM 9.0.2 and restore on a UIM 20.3 on new environment? Is this possible? If yes how to backup and restore.

please note the DB is MS SQL 2012 R2 running on a separate server. 

KM

[Kasun Meedeniya]

can anyone help on this please?

[Gene Howard]

No this is not possible. 
You could move the 9.x database  to a new environment  install the same 9.x version and then do an upgrade to 20x
but you can not just backup a 9.x database and restore it to a 20.x environment and expect it to work.

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Gene Howard
Principal Support Engineer
Broadcom
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[Luc Christiaens]

You can reuse all existing configurations and customizations. (with some editing)
Via the command:
robocopy \\old_uimserver\c$\nimsoft \\new_uim\c$\backup\old_uim /S /Z /X /NP /XO /XF /XJ /IF *.cfg *.lua *.pl *.rb
you copy most of the existing configurations and probe settings to the new server (in a backup directory) so that you can reuse them where/when needed

[Kasun Meedeniya]

Hi Luc,

after coping data can i replace the new installation files with the copied data? ( just copy and paste)

kind advice please

thanks

[Kasun Meedeniya]

Hi Gene,

can i install 9.2 and restore 9.0.2 database?

thanks
KM

[David Michel]

When copying the above mentioned files from one instance to another the probe version at each should be the same, and then update the probe. 
With each UIM update there is an update to the UIM database and so it is expected that restoring a 9.0.2 database to a 9.2.0 instance will have unexpected results.

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Support Engineer
Broadcom
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