Restore Folders

[teelee]

Help.....!!!!

In performing an import, all folders and dashboards were overwritten with the new information.

Is there a way to restore the old information?  I copied the folders in 'My Folder', but they were overwritten as well.

Is there anything I can do to restore these, or will these have to be recreated?

Not having a good day... :-(

[MFGF]

Do you have a backup of the content store from before you ran the import?  If so, you should be able to restore from that to get your folders back.

MF.

[teelee]

Good morning MF,
No unfortunately I was not the one that executed the import, so there is not one available.  I will have to recreate all of the BI reports/Metrics dashboards I had before.

Thanks for your assistance...have a great day (:|)

[MFGF]

That's bad news - sorry to hear about this.  The only other hope is that you have something that physically backed up the content store database from outside of the Cognos 8 environment (scheduled backups or similar).

Good luck!

MF.

[teelee]

Thanks MF,
To my surprise I was able to recreate the Metrics information by creating a Metrics package and connecting to the data source.  I have all of my Metrics information, Metrics, Projects, Metrics Types :-).  The only thing I have to do is recreate the reports and dashboards, which will not be as bad as having to input all of the information, since this was a manual process.

Thanks for your assistance and have a wonderful day! :-)

[pratyush]

Thanks MF,
To my surprise I was able to recreate the Metrics information by creating a Metrics package and connecting to the data source.  I have all of my Metrics information, Metrics, Projects, Metrics Types :-).  The only thing I have to do is recreate the reports and dashboards, which will not be as bad as having to input all of the information, since this was a manual process.

Thanks for your assistance and have a wonderful day! :-)

Hi

The other solution was the backup team , as we have regular backups of content store, so if you or your team had a backup of the content store then you need not have to recreate the dashboards and reports ;)

Cheers ......