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How to Back up the Big Data Service
To protect against accidental data loss or corruption, download the Backup utility from the App Store:
Instructions
1. Prepare Big Data Service for Backups
Before we can take a back-up, some configuration must be defined.
1.1. Stop the Big Data Service
Open Windows Services.
Find “Intelligent Plant Big Data Service”.
Right click, then select “Stop”.
1.2. Set a back-up location
Edit Elasticsearch configuration file: C:\Program Files\Intelligent Plant\Big Data\es\config\elasticsearch.yml
(This is a text file using YAML format and that can be edited in any text editor.)
#Define Physical Repo for snapshots #More info: <https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/modules-snapshots.html> path.repo: "C:\\Temp\\Backup"
Uncomment the path.repo entry (remove hash) and provide a filepath to your back-up location (use two \'s to representa a slash as above.) (e.g. “c:\\temp\\Backup”).
1.3. Restart the Big Data Service
Open Windows Services. Find “Intelligent Plant Big Data Service”. Right click, then select “Start”.
2. Run Big Data Back Up Utiliy
Download and unzip the contents of the BackupUtility to your App Store Connect server.
Open the folder and double click “BackupUtility.exe” to run.
Enter “Snapshot”.
This creates a database restore point protecting against data corruption or accidental loss.
5 Archive back-up files
To protect against hardware failure, the contents of the back-up folder (defined in step 2) should be copied to an alternative location.